Hyperiōn through the eyes of sculptors, painters, and craftsmen across the ages
The Helios Metope of Troy — from the Temple of Athena at Ilion, 300–280 BC: the sun god bursts from the sea in his quadriga, head ringed by a rayed halo — the definitive ancient image of the chariot of Hyperion's house.
Sappho Painter Lekythos — Attic black-figure, ca. 500 BC: Helios rises in his four-horse chariot between Nyx departing and Eos awakening, the Titan's daily circuit painted at the very moment of dawn.
East Pediment of the Parthenon — Phidias's workshop, 438–432 BC: at the left corner the horses of Helios rear out of the waters of Okeanos, the sun-god pediment that framed the birth of Athena with the Titan's rising light.
Colossus Solis — Philips Galle after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1572: the Renaissance's great imagining of the bronze Colossus of Rhodes, the seventy-cubit statue of the sun god that stood as the Wonder of Hyperion's cult.
Gigantomachy of Perge — Roman relief from the theatre of Perge, Antalya Museum: Helios drives his quadriga into the battle of gods and Giants while Oceanos and Tethys surge beside him and Eos runs before the horses.
Hammat Tiberias Zodiac Mosaic — synagogue floor of late antiquity: crowned with rays and driving his chariot, Helios holds the center of the turning zodiac, the old sun god still ordering the wheel of the year.
