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Phaethon ([Φαέθων] Error: {{Langx}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 7) ) is the title of a lost tragedy written by Athenian playwright Euripides, first produced circa 420 BC, and covered the myth of Phaethon, the young mortal boy who asked his father the sun god Helios to drive his solar chariot for a single day. The play has ...
Here Phaethon lies who in the sun-god's chariot fared. And though greatly he failed, more greatly he dared. [38] Apollo, stricken with grief at his son's death, at first refused to resume his work of driving his chariot, but at the appeal of the other gods, including Jupiter who used threats, returned to his task.
The serendipitous discovery near the crypt has a vaulted ceiling bearing a mosaic depicting Apollo with an aureole riding in his chariot, within a framing of rinceaux of vine leaves. While scholars agree that this is a depiction of Apollo, this mosaic is from the Tardo period ( Low Roman Empire ) in which Helios and Apollo were often merged.
In his Dialogues of the Gods, the satirical writer Lucian of Samosata mentions that Clymene along with Phaethon pressured Helios to lend his chariot to the boy, [29] and that sometimes Helios lingers with Clymene, forgetting to drive his chariot. [30] A passage from Greek anthology also mentions Helios visiting Clymene in her room. [31]
The mural, by artist Jack Stewart, depicts the Greek god Apollo flying his sun chariot across the sky. City of Miami Beach. Officials finally settled on the new Fire Station 1, which by chance ...
The Greek word “Helios” refers to the sun god. He is often depicted as a handsome, usually beardless, man clothed in purple robes and crowned with the shining aureole of the sun.
Hyacinthus chose Apollo over the others. He visited all of Apollo's sacred lands with the god in a chariot drawn by swans. So fiercely was Apollo in love with Hyacinthus that he abandoned his sanctuary in Delphi to enjoy Hyacinthus' company by the river Eurotas. He taught Hyacinthus the use of the bow and the lyre, the art of prophecy, and ...
It can be read as an allegorical depiction of the punishment awaiting those mortals who dare to raise themselves as high as the "sun" (i.e. the Sun King). Phaëton was the first lyric tragedy of Lully and Quinault to receive its world premiere at the Palace of Versailles , where it was given without stage machinery on or about 6 January 1683. [ 1 ]