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HYPERION HYPERION , in See also: Greek See also: mythology, one of the See also: Titans, son of See also: Uranus and Gaea and See also: father of Helios, the See also: sun-See also: god (See also: Hesiod, Theog . 134, 371; See also: Apollodorus i. i . 2) . In the well-known passage in See also: Shakespeare (See also: Hamlet, i . 2: " Hyperion to a satyr," where as in other poets the vowel -i- though really See also: long, is shortened for metrical reasons) Hyperion is used for See also: Apollo as expressive of the See also: idea of beauty . The name is often used as. an epithet of Helios, who is himself sometimes called simply Hyperion . It is explained as (I) he who moves above (tamp-See also: ewe), but the quantity of the vowel is against this; (2) he who is above (brept-wv) . Others take it to be a patronymic in See also: form, like Kpoviwv, MoXiwv . End of Article: HYPERION |
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