Rhodos

Various parents were given for Rhodos. Pindar makes her a daughter of Aphrodite with no father mentioned,Pindar, Olympian Odes [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Pind.%20O.%207&lang=original 7.14] although scholia on Pindar add Poseidon as the father;Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Odes [https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5034.tlg001a.perseus-grc1:7.25 7.25] for Herodorus of Heraclea she was the daughter of Aphrodite and Poseidon,Herodorus, fr. 62 Fowler (Fowler 2000, [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA253 p. 253]), apud schol. Pindar Olympian 7.24–5; Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA591 p. 591]. while according to Diodorus Siculus she was the daughter of Poseidon and Halia, one of the Telchines, the original rulers of Rhodes.Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#55.4 5.55.4] According to Apollodorus (referring to her as "Rhode") she was a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, and full sister to Triton.Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.4.5 1.4.5] (with Frazer's note 3); Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA14 p. 14]. However, for Epimenides, her father was Oceanus,Epimenides, fr. 11 Fowler (Fowler 2000, [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA98 p. 98]); Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA14 p. 14] while according to a scholion on Odyssey 17.208 (calling her "Rhode"), her father was the river-god Asopus, thus making her a Naiad.Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.14.3 3.14.3 n. 2] with commentary of Frazer; Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA591 p. 591] Perhaps misreading Pindar, Asclepiades ("presumably the mythographer" Asclepiades of Tragilus) gives her father as Helios.Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA14 p. 14]

Rhode together with Helios or Poseidon were the ancestors of Ialysus, Cameirus and Lindus, eponyms of the cities of Rhodes.Tzetzes ad Lycophron, [https://topostext.org/work/860#923 923] [https://archive.org/details/isaakioukaiiann00mlgoog/page/875/mode/1up?view=theater (Gk text)]{{AI-generated source|date=November 2024}}

The poet Pindar tells the story, that when the gods drew lots for the places of the earth, Helios being absent received nothing. He complained to Zeus about it, who offered to make the division again. Helios refused, for he had seen a new island about to rise from the sea. So Helios, with Zeus' consent, claimed a new island (Rhodes), which had not yet risen from the sea. And after it rose from the sea he lay with her and produced seven sons.Pindar, Olympian Ode [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0033.tlg001.perseus-eng1:7 7.54–74]. According to Gantz, p. 31, this "tale survives only in Pindar (and may well be a local tradition or poetic invention)". According to another source, it was Helios himself who caused the water overflowing the island to disappear, and after that he named this island "Rhodes" after Rhodos.Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#56.3 5.56.3]

By Helios, Rhodos was the mother of the Heliadae, who succeeded the Telchines as rulers of Rhodes. According to Pindar, Rhodos had, by Helios, seven sons.Pindar, Olympian Ode [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Pind.%20O.%207&lang=original 7.71–74] Pindar does not name the sons, but according to Diodorus Siculus, the Heliadae were Ochimus, Cercaphus, Actis, Macar (i.e. Macareus), Candalus, Triopas, and Tenages.Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#56.5 5.56.5] Diodorus Siculus also says that Helios and Rhodos had one daughter, Electryone. A scholion to Pindar gives the same list of sons, with Macareus (for Macar) and naming the last Heliadae as Phaethon, "the younger, whom the Rhodians call Tenages".Scholion to Pindar, Olympian 7.132a (Fowler 2001, [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA205 p. 205]), which quotes Hellanicus of Lesbos as calling their mother "Rhode" rather than "Rhodos". Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA591 p. 591] in his list of the sons of Rhodos and Helios given by the scholion to Pindar, omits (apparently inadvertently) Ochimos, though he does mention him later (p. 592) as one of the brothers (along with Cercaphus) as not having participated in the murder of Tenages. The older Phaethon referred to here probably being the famous Phaethon (whose story is told by Ovid) who drove Helios' chariot.Fowler 2013, p. 592, says that "It is probably safe to assume ... but not quite certain". For Ovid's account see Metamorphoses [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:1.746 1.750–2.324] The scholion on Odyssey 17.208 (perhaps drawing on either of the lost tragedies Heliades (Daughters of Helios) by Aeschylus, and Phaethon, by Euripides), also makes Rhodos the mother, by Helios, of this famous Phaethon, as well as three daughters: Lampetie, Aigle, and Phaethousa.Gantz, p. 32; Frazer, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.14.3 note 2] to Apollodorus, 3.14.3; Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA591 p. 591]. The scholion cites "the tragedians" as his source; for an account of these two lost plays, and their being possible sources for the scholion, see Gantz, pp. 31–32. (In the Odyssey, Lampetie and Phaethousa, the shepherds of Helios' cattle and sheep on Thrinacia, are instead the daughters of Helios by Neaera.)Homer, Odyssey [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-eng1:12.111-12.152 12.131–133]; Gantz, pp. 30, 34

When Aphrodite cursed Helios and made him fall in love with a mortal princess named Leucothoe, he is said to have forgotten about Rhodos, among other lovers.Ovid, Metamorphoses [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-metamorphoses/1916/pb_LCL042.193.xml 4.192–270]

While Rhodian coins were known for displaying the magnificent head of Helios, some of them showed the head of Rhodos; additionally, the rose (Greek rhodon) became the island's symbol.Larson, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=1ww3m1vSRtsC&pg=PA207 207] During the Hellenistic period, she was worshipped in Rhodes as the island's tutelary goddess.{{cite encyclopedia | first1 = Susanne | last1 = Eiben | title = Rhode | entry = Rhode | date = 2006 | url = https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/rhode-e1022570 | encyclopedia = Brill's New Pauly | editor-first1 = Hubert | editor-last1 = Cancik | editor-first2 = Helmuth | editor-last2 = Schneider | display-editors = etal | publisher = Brill Reference Online | doi = 10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e1022570 | access-date = April 27, 2023| url-access = subscription }}

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