Web Theoi Greek Name Transliteration Latin Spelling Translation
Ἡλιαδες Ἡλιαδαι Hêliades, Hêliadai Heliades, Heliadae Daughters
of the Sun Φαιθωντιδες Phaithôntides Phaethontides Of Phaethon
THE HELIADES were seven nymph daughters of the sun-god Helios.
When their brother Phaethon was struck from the chariot of the
sun by Zeus, they gathered around his smoky grave on the banks
of the River Eridanos and in their unrelenting grief were
transformed into poplar-trees and their tears into golden amber.
Aeschylus and Ovid use the names of two of Homer's Neaerides for
the poplar-tree sisters of Phaethon. However they were usually
regarded as a distinct set of nymphs.  [1.1] HELIOS (Aeschylus
Heliades, Quintus Smyrnaeus 5.627, Philoxenus of Cythera Frag
834, Apollonius Rhodius 4.598, Pausanias 1.4.1, Diodorus Siculus
5.23.2, Philostratus the Elder 1.11, Hyginus Fabulae 154, Nonnus
Dionysiaca 38.99) [1.2] HELIOS & KLYMENE (Ovid Metamorphoses
2.340) [1.2] LAMPETIA, PHAETHOUSA, AIGLE (Aeschylus Heliades)
[1.2] LAMPETI