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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 200 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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.

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