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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.
Helios on his chariot fighting a Giant, detail of the Gigantomachy frieze, Pergamon Altar, Pergamon museum, Berlin. At some point during the battle of gods and giants in Phlegra, [130] Helios takes up an exhausted Hephaestus on his chariot. [131] After the war ends, one of the giants, Picolous, flees to Aeaea, where Helios' daughter, Circe ...
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 main section depicts the Greek god of the sun and light driving a star-like, horse-pulled chariot. At either end are figures representing Apollo and his twin sister, Artemis, as children, and ...
Desiring to prove himself, Phaëton convinces his father to allow him to drive the sun-chariot for one day. In the course of his flight he loses control of the horses, threatening the earth beneath with fiery destruction; Epaphus entreats his father to put an end to the danger, and Jupiter strikes the chariot down with a thunderbolt.
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.
Helios, who in Greek mythology is the god of the Sun, is said to have had seven herds of oxen and seven flocks of sheep, each numbering fifty head. [3] In the Odyssey, Homer describes these immortal cattle as handsome (ἄριστος), wide-browed (εὐρυμέτωπος), fat, and straight-horned (ὀρθόκραιρος). [4]