Hyperion (Titan)

Hyperion
Hyperion
Member of the Titans
Ancient Greek	Ὑπερίων
Battles	Titanomachy
Personal information
Parents	Uranus and Gaia
Siblings	Titans Crius ; Cronus ; Coeus ; Dione ; Iapetus ; Mnemosyne ; Oceanus ; Phoebe ; Rhea ; Tethys ; Theia ; Themis ; Hecatoncheires Briareus ; Cottus ; Gyges ; Cyclopes Arges ; Brontes ; Steropes ; Other siblings Gigantes ; Erinyes (the Furies) ; Meliae ; Half-siblings Aphrodite ; Eurybia ; Ceto ; Nereus ; Phorcys ; Pontus ; Python ; Thaumas ; Typhon ; Uranus ;
Consort	Theia
Offspring	Helios, Eos and Selene

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In Greek mythology, Hyperion (/haɪˈpɪəriən/; Greek: Ὑπερίων, 'he who goes before')^[1] was one of the twelve Titan children of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky).^[2] With his sister, the Titaness Theia, Hyperion fathered Helios (Sun), Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn).^[3]

Hyperion was, along with his son Helios, a personification of the sun, with the two sometimes identified.^[4] John Keats's abandoned epic poem Hyperion is among the literary works that feature the figure.

^ Grimal, s.v. Hyperion; Smith, s.v. Hyperion.
^ Grimal, s.v. Hyperion; Tripp, s.v. Hyperion; Morford, p. 40; Keightley, p. 47; Smith, s.v. Hyperion; Hesiod, Theogony 131–136; Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter, 26, 74; Apollodorus, 1.1.3.
^ Hesiod, Theogony 371–374; Apollodorus, 1.2.2. The Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios 1–8 calls Hyperion's sister and mate "Euryphaëssa" probably, an epithet of Theia, see Morford, p. 40; West 2003b, p. 215 n. 61; Tripp, s.v. Hyperion. Other accounts make Selene the daughter of the Titan Pallas (Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes, 99–100) or of Helios (Euripides, The Phoenician Women 175 ff.; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 44.191). For a genealogical table of the descendants of Hyperion and Theia see Grimal, p. 535, Table 14, see also Tables 5 and 12.
^ Tripp, s.v. Hyperion; Grimal, s.v. Hyperion.

[1] Grimal, s.v. Hyperion; Smith, s.v. Hyperion.

[2] Grimal, s.v. Hyperion; Tripp, s.v. Hyperion; Morford, p. 40; Keightley, p. 47; Smith, s.v. Hyperion; Hesiod, Theogony 131–136; Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter, 26, 74; Apollodorus, 1.1.3.

[3] Hesiod, Theogony 371–374; Apollodorus, 1.2.2. The Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios 1–8 calls Hyperion's sister and mate "Euryphaëssa" probably, an epithet of Theia, see Morford, p. 40; West 2003b, p. 215 n. 61; Tripp, s.v. Hyperion. Other accounts make Selene the daughter of the Titan Pallas (Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes, 99–100) or of Helios (Euripides, The Phoenician Women 175 ff.; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 44.191). For a genealogical table of the descendants of Hyperion and Theia see Grimal, p. 535, Table 14, see also Tables 5 and 12.

[4] Tripp, s.v. Hyperion; Grimal, s.v. Hyperion.

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