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 42 GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY tinguishing symbols he carries a bow and arrows. A variety of this type, Apollo at rest, with his arm resting on his head, seems to have originated with Praxiteles. As leader of the Muses he is represented with a long, Ionian garment (chiton), a lyre, and a laurel wreath, a conception which, at least in the more animated form of its representation, is believed to have been furnished by Scopas. 54. As the ethical side of Apollo's nature was more fully developed, by degrees his significance in the visible world was forgotten, and the active force typified in the sun god was transferred to Helios, who was probably from a very early period regarded by the inhabitants of the island of Rhodes as their chief god. For, while his worship in the rest of Greece was relatively insignificant, there he was so highly honored that a brilliant festival, the Helieia, was celebrated for him. At the same place was erected in his honor, about 280 B.C., at the entrance of the harbor, the celebrated bronze statue (made by Chares of Lindos) known as the Colossus of Ehodes. On account of the apparent movement of the sun it was believed that Helios rode along in the heavens in a glit- tering chariot, drawn by four swift horses. He himself was pictured to the imagination as in the bloom of young manhood, with a sparkling crown upon his head, which was covered with long curling locks. From the sea god- dess Clymene he begot Phaethon ('the shining'), who perished in an attempt to manage the chariot of the sun for a day in his father's place. On the island of Thrina- cia were said to be pastured the milk-white herds of cattle and flocks of sheep belonging to Helios, by which are probably to be understood the bright little clouds