While popular conception of Greek myths paints a quaint picture of the solar chariot riding across the sky, a search for "sun", "Helios", "Apollo", and his son "Phaethon" yielded only one instance of this motif in Homer or in Hesiod, although all are mentioned many times. Various gods do employ chariots to travel the sky throughout Homer, Poseidon more often than Apollo.Later authors and Greek art begin to use this scene more explicitly and frequently.