Helicon

Helicon or Helikon may refer to

  • Helicon (crater), a lunar impact crater
  • Helicon (instrument), a brass musical instrument in the tuba family
  • Helicon (physics), low frequency electromagnetic waves
  • Helicon (planet), fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series
  • Helicon (river), a former river in the Macedonian city Dion, mentioned in Greek mythology
  • Mount Helicon, mountain in Boeotia, Greece
  • Helicon, a 1977 album by the The Four Seasons
  • Helicon Records, a record label founded in Israel in 1985
  • "Helicon 1", a song by the Scottish post-rock band Mogwai
  • "Helicon 2", a song by the Scottish post-rock band Mogwai
  • "Helikon", a 1893 mansion designed by Charles Slayter in Strathfield, New South Wales
  • Helikon Park, a park in Randfontein Local Municipality, West Rand District Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
  • Helikon, a 1952 piano concerto by Mikis Theodorakis

Famous quotes containing the word helicon:

    The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)