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Answer for the clue "(Greek mythology) a Titan who was the son of Gaea and Uranus and the father of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology ", 8 letters:
hyperion

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" Hyperion " is an abandoned epic poem by 19th-century English Romantic poet John Keats . It is based on the Titanomachia , and tells of the despair of the Titans after their fall to the Olympians. Keats wrote the poem from late 1818 until the spring of ...

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Hyperion \Hy*pe"ri*on\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Class Myth.) The god of the sun; in the later mythology identified with Apollo, and distinguished for his beauty. So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr. --Shak.

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With broken blessings, inarticulate joy And tears, Alcestis thanked Hyperion, And worshipped.

Hyperion stories combined and the two Endymion novels combined, broken into four books because of the realities of publishing.

I enjoyed returning to the Hyperion universe to see what had happened to some of the distant Ousters and the Amoiete Spectrum Helix people.

The boat had been transferred from their last ship Argonaute, the Frog prize, but Bolitho had said that he would leave it to his coxswain to recruit a new crew from Hyperion.

According to the Cantos, the ship the Hegemony Consul had left Hyperion in had been infused with the persona of the second John Keats cybrid.

According to the blasphemous Cantos, Hoyt had accepted Dure's cruciform as well as his own, but had later returned to Hyperion in the last days before the Fall to beg the evil Shrike to relieve him of his burden.

In the Cantos the Hegemony Consul had used this very same hawking mat ("hawking" here with a small h because it referred to the Old Earth bird, not to the pre-Hegira scientist named Hawking whose work had led to the C-plus breakthrough with the improved interstellar drive) to cross Hyperion in one final legend-this being the Consul's epic flight toward the city of Keats from the Valley of the Time Tombs to free this very ship and fly it back to the tombs.

In the centre of the channel, with all but her topsails and jib clewed up, his ship, his old Hyperion was entering harbour.

Chris joined them, and the difference between the Titanides of Crius and of Hyperion was immediately obvious.

When I refused to build that damfool village so the adults could be revived in 'familiar surroundings' Akar, the Ara Commander, kept 'em in storage up in Hyperion, saying his conscience wouldn't let 'em be psychologically harmed.

On Hyperion she convinced Bosch she had escaped from the Dollmaker and pointed to the lighted windows of an apartment over a garage.

Endymion had been one of the first Hyperion cities settled after the dropship crash almost seven hundred years earlier.

Hyperion and the frigate would stay to windward, in this case astern of the transports, so that they could dash down if required to defend them.

This thing doesn't have a cash slot, and I cashed out my credit card to get off Hyperion without making myself conspicuous.

Each was a collector's item, but they used cartridge magazines that could still be purchased -- at least on Hyperion.