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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 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.
Phaëton: In Greek mythology, the son of Helios, the sun god. To prove his paternity, he asked his father to allow him to drive the chariot of the sun for one day. Unable to control the horses, Phaëton almost destroyed the earth, but was killed by Zeus. Used as a simile for fear in Inf. XVII, 106–108. Used as a reference to the sun. Purg.
From his father Zeus, Apollo received a golden headband and a chariot driven by swans. [169] [170] In his early years when Apollo spent his time herding cows, he was reared by the Thriae, who trained him and enhanced his prophetic skills. [171] The god Pan was also said to mentored him in the prophetic art. [172]
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 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]