Deity · Individual

Hyperion

Published entity metadata

Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name: Hyperion
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Deity
Scope: Individual
Editorial note: No editorial note published.

Aliases

Sun-god Hyperion

Title · Direct

the sun

Alternative name · Reported

scout the sun

Descriptive reference · Reported

sun Hyperion

Alternative name · Remembered

sun-god

Title · Disguised

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

house of Hades1 observation

·Hypothetical

Hyperion threatened to go down to Hades and shine among the dead.

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“‘Meanwhile Lampetie went straight off to the sun and told him we had been killing his cows, whereon he flew into a great rage, and said to the immortals, ‘Father Jove, and all you other gods who live in everlasting bliss, I must have vengeance on the crew of Ulysses’ ship: they have had the insolence to kill my cows, which were the one thing I loved to look upon, whether I was going up heaven or down again. If they do not square accounts with me about my cows, I will go down to Hades and shine there among the dead.’ ”

Claims

·Direct

Hyperion prevented Ulysses’ men from ever reaching home after they ate his cattle.

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“eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home”

·Hypothetical

The Sun owns the Thrinacian flocks and sees and hears everything.

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“the sheep and cattle belonging to the sun, who sees and gives ear to everything”

·Reported

Hyperion and Neaera are parents of the goddesses who tend his Thrinacian flocks and herds.

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“the goddesses Phaethusa and Lampetie, who are children of the sun-god Hyperion by Neaera. Their mother when she had borne them and had done suckling them sent them to the Thrinacian island, which was a long way off, to live there and look after their father’s flocks and herds”

·Reported

The mighty Sun sees and hears everything.

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“the mighty sun, who sees and gives ear to everything”

·Reported

Hyperion rages and demands vengeance on Ulysses’s crew for killing the cattle he most loved to behold.

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“he flew into a great rage, and said to the immortals, ‘Father Jove, and all you other gods who live in everlasting bliss, I must have vengeance on the crew of Ulysses’ ship: they have had the insolence to kill my cows, which were the one thing I loved to look upon, whether I was going up heaven or down again”

·Disguised

The fabricated report says the sun-god became angry because Ulysses’s men slaughtered his cattle.

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“Jove and the sun-god were angry with him because his men had slaughtered the sun-god’s cattle”

·Uncertain

In Theoclymenus’s vision, the sun is blotted from heaven.

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“the sun is blotted out of heaven”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

·Direct

“the Sun-god Hyperion”

·Reported

“the sun, who saw what they were about”

·Remembered

“the sun ripens them”

·Remembered

“they are both children of the sun by Perse”

·Reported

“the sun, who sees and gives ear to everything”

·Reported

“the sun-god Hyperion”

·Reported

“the sun and told him we had been killing his cows”

·Disguised

“the sun-god were angry with him”

·Remembered

“the cattle of the sun-god”