Editing Helios (section)

==== Gods ====
A myth about the origin of [[Corinth]] goes as such: Helios and Poseidon clashed as to who would get to have the city. The [[Hecatoncheires|Hecatoncheir]] Briareos was tasked to settle the dispute between the two gods; he awarded the [[Acrocorinth]] to Helios, while Poseidon was given the [[Isthmus of Corinth|isthmus]] of Corinth.<ref name=":p215">Fowler 1988, p. 98 n. 5; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.1.6 2.1.6], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.4.6 2.4.6].</ref><ref>[[Dio Chrysostom]], ''Discourses'' [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dio_Chrysostom/Discourses/37*.html#p13 37.11–12]</ref>

[[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]] wrote that [[Nerites (mythology)|Nerites]] was the son of the sea god [[Nereus]] and the Oceanid [[Doris (Oceanid)|Doris]]. In the version where Nerites became the lover of Poseidon, it is said that Helios turned him into a shellfish, for reasons unknown. At first Aelian writes that Helios was resentful of the boy's speed, but when trying to explain why he changed his form, he suggests that perhaps Poseidon and Helios were rivals in love.<ref>[[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]], ''On Animals'' [http://www.attalus.org/translate/animals14.html#28 14.28]</ref>{{sfn|Sanders|Thumiger|Carey|Lowe|2013|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=qt7JkvxScSkC&pg=PA86 86]}}

In an Aesop fable, Helios and the north wind god [[Boreas (god)|Boreas]] [[The North Wind and the Sun|argued]] about which one between them was the strongest god. They agreed that whoever was able to make a passing traveller remove his cloak would be declared the winner. Boreas was the one to try his luck first; but no matter how hard he blew, he could not remove the man's cloak, instead making him wrap his cloak around him even tighter. Helios shone bright then, and the traveller, overcome with the heat, removed his cloak, giving him the victory. The moral is that persuasion is better than force.<ref>[[Aesop]], ''[[Aesop's Fables|Fables]]'' [http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/oxford/183.htm 183]</ref>