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=Story of Helios.=

=Helios' Home=

Helios, whose palace (made by [|Hephaestus]) stands on columns of gold and bronze, and has gables of ivory, is the Sun. That is why it is said that his eye is everywhere, and that his portion is labour every day. Over the waves, in a winged and hollow bed forged of gold by Hephaestus, Helius is carried in sleep from the Hesperians' country to the land of the Ethiopians, where his horses and chariot stand till Eos (Dawn) appears, and then Helius mounts his car. There is no rest for Helius and his horses when [|Eos] has left the ocean and climbed the sky.  =Helios and the Corinthians=



The Corinthians tell that Poseidon had a dispute with Helios about the land about [|Corinth], and that Briareus, one of the HECATONCHEIRES, arbitrated between them, assigning the Isthmus to Poseidon, and the height above the city to Helios. They add that Helios later handed over the Acrocorinthus to Aphrodite; but the land of Corinth is also said to have been given by Helios to Aeetes before the latter emigrated, becoming king of Colchis.