Which Titan was the god of the sun?

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Which Titan was the god of the sun? Helios was the Titan god who personified the Sun in Greek mythology.

Helios was traditionally the son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, and the brother of Selene, goddess of the Moon, and Eos, goddess of the dawn. Each day, he was imagined driving a radiant chariot drawn by four horses across the sky, carrying sunlight from east to west.

Greek stories sometimes describe Helios as an all-seeing deity because the Sun witnesses events across the world. In the Odyssey, he owns sacred cattle on the island of Thrinacia; when Odysseus’s crew kills them, Helios demands punishment from Zeus. His son Phaethon is another famous figure: Phaethon disastrously tries to drive his father’s chariot.

A common mix-up is Apollo, who became strongly associated with the Sun in later Greek and Roman tradition. Hyperion was Helios’s father, not normally the Sun’s driver, while Sol is the Roman equivalent of the solar deity.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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