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PHAETHON (Gr. gSaEBwv, shining, radiant)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 342 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG
PHAETHON (Gr. gSaEBwv, shining, radiant) , in Greek mythology, the son of Helios the sun-god, and the nymph Clymene. He persuaded his father to let him drive the chariot of the sun across the sky, but he lost
control
  of the horses, and driving too near the earth scorched it. To save the world from utter destruction Zeus killed
Phaethon
  with a thunderbolt. He fell to earth at the mouth of the
Eridanus
 , a river of northern Europe (identified in later times with the Po), on the banks of which his weeping sisters, the Heliades, were transformed into poplars and their tears into amber. This
part
  of the legend points to the mouth of the Oder or Vistula, where amber abounds.
Phaethon
  was the subject of a drama of the same name by Euripides, of which some fragments remain, and of a lost tragedy of Aeschylus (Heliades) ; the story is most fully told in the Metamorphoses of Ovid (i. 750-ii. 366 and Nonnus, Dionysiaca, xxxviii). Phaethon has been identified with the sun himself and with the morning
star
  (Phosphorus). In the former case the legend is supposed to represent the sun sinking in the west in a blaze of light. His identification with the morning
star
  is supported by Hyginus (Astron. ii. 42), where it is stated that the morning (and evening) star was the son of Cephalus and Eos (the father and
mother
  of Phaethon according to
Hesiod
 , Theog. 984-986). The fall of Phaethon is a favourite subject, especially on sarcophagus reliefs, as indicating the transitoriness of human life.
See G. Knaack, " Quaestiones Phaethonteae," in Philologische Untersuchungen (1885); F. Wieseler, Phaethon (1857); Wilamowitz-M011endorff and C. Robert in Hermes, xviii. (1883) ; Frazer's Pausanias, ii. 59 ; S. Reinach, Revue de 1' /
list
 . des religions, lviii. (1908).


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