Helios. Personification of the Sun. Depicted as a young man riding a chariot pulled by four horses and with a crown of lightning. Engraving from Astronomicon, by the Latin author Gaius Julius Hyginus (64 BC-17 AD). Incunabula 283. Published in Venice, 1485. Library of the University of Barcelona. Catalonia, Spain.

Helios. Personification of the Sun. Depicted as a young man riding a chariot pulled by four horses and with a crown of lightning. Engraving from Astronomicon, by the Latin author Gaius Julius Hyginus (64 BC-17 AD). Incunabula 283. Published in Venice, 1485. Library of the University of Barcelona. Catalonia, Spain. Stock Photo

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