Rhodos
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In Greek mythology, Rhodos/Rhodus () or Rhode (), was the goddess and personification of the island of Rhodes and a wife of the sun god Helios.
Key facts
- Deity.name
- Rhodos
- Deity.type
- Greek
- Deity.symbol
- rose
- Deity.abode
- Rhodes
- Deity.god_of
- Goddess of Rhodes
- Deity.mother
- Aphrodite, Amphitrite or Halia
- Deity.father
- Poseidon
- Deity.consort
- Helios
- Deity.children
- Actis, Candalus, Cercaphus, Electryone, Macareus, Ochimus, Tenages and Triopas
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In Greek mythology, Rhodos/Rhodus () or Rhode (), was the goddess and personification of the island of Rhodes and a wife of the sun god Helios.
== Family == Various parents were given for Rhodos. Pindar makes her a daughter of Aphrodite with no father mentioned, although scholia on Pindar add Poseidon as the father; for Herodorus of Heraclea she was the daughter of Aphrodite and Poseidon, while according to Diodorus Siculus she was the daughter of Poseidon and Halia, one of the Telchines, the original rulers of Rhodes. According to Apollodorus (referring to her as "Rhode") she was a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, and full sister to Triton. However, for Epimenides, her father was Oceanus, while according to a scholion on Odyssey 17.208 (calling her "Rhode"), her father was the river-god Asopus, thus making her a Naiad. Perhaps misreading Pindar, Asclepiades ("presumably the mythographer" Asclepiades of Tragilus) gives her father as Helios.