Helios vs Selene

The Titan-born sun who drives his chariot across the sky each day and sees everything beneath it. Son of Hyperion and Theia, brother of Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn), Helios is the witness gods and mortals call on because nothing happens outside his gaze.

Helios was born to the Titans Hyperion and Theia, together with his sisters Selene and Eos. Hesiod lists the three light-bringers as a single brood; the Homeric Hymn to Helios names their mother Euryphaessa, 'far-shining', a title that may be another name for Theia.

Hesiod names Helios as a child of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, born with his sisters Selene and Eos. He is not an Olympian but an older power, and Greek poetry treats him less as a ruler than as a witness: because he crosses the whole sky every day, he sees what others miss.

The Titan-born goddess of the moon, daughter of Hyperion and Theia and sister of Helios and Eos. She drives her team across the night sky, and poets tell of her love for the sleeping shepherd Endymion.

Selene was born to the Titans Hyperion and Theia, sister of Helios the sun and Eos the dawn. The Homeric Hymn to Selene adds that Zeus lay with her and that she bore a daughter, Pandia.

Selene is the moon itself, imagined as a goddess who bathes in Ocean and drives her horses across the sky at night. Hesiod places her with Helios and Eos among the children of Hyperion and Theia. The *Homeric Hymn to Selene* describes the radiance from her head filling the air and calls her full moon a sign and token to mortals, since the month was counted by her phases.