HYPERION  , in

Greek mythology, one of the Titans, son of Uranus and Gaea and father of Helios, the sun-god (Hesiod, Theog . 134, 371; Apollodorus i. i . 2) . In the well-known passage in Shakespeare (Hamlet, i . 2: " Hyperion to a satyr," where as in other poets the vowel -i- though really long, is shortened for metrical reasons) Hyperion is used for Apollo as expressive of the 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-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 form, like Kpoviwv, MoXiwv .