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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.
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 ...
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 ...
The popularly named "Tomb of the Julii" (Mausoleum "M") survives in the Vatican Necropolis beneath St. Peter's Basilica.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.
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 ...
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.
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]
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.