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Phaethon asks his father for the chariot, engraving by Hendrik Goltzius, 1590. ... Phaethon's myth was the preeminent myth involving amber in classical antiquity, ...
Clymene, another Oceanid, was given as the wife to King Merops of Aethiopia and was, by Helios, the mother of Phaethon and the Heliades. [11] Others include: Clymene, the name of one or two Nereid(s), [12] 50 sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.
Phaethon follows his mother's advice and travels east, past Aethiopia and India, to meet Helios. His father warmly receives him, confirming his parentage, and Phaethon asks as a favour to drive Helios' chariot for one day, and Helios, not being able to go back on his word he swore on the river Styx, agrees. The results are catastrophic; the ...
Explaining on how Aphrodite could be considered Phaethon's bride, Wilamowitz suggested that Euripides combined the stories of two Phaethons, that of the son of Helios who drove his father's car and died, and that of Phaethon the son of Helios' sister Eos whom Aphrodite abducted to be a watchman of her shrines, and whom late-antique writers ...
Traditionally, Phaethon was Helios' son by the Oceanid nymph Clymene, [91] or alternatively Rhode [92] or the otherwise unknown Prote. [93] In one version of the story, Phaethon is Helios' grandson, rather than son, through the boy's father Clymenus. In this version, Phaethon's mother is an Oceanid nymph named Merope. [94]
According to some sources, their tears (amber) fell into the river Eridanus, in which Phaethon had fallen. [ 7 ] According to Hyginus, the Heliades were turned to poplar trees because they yoked the chariot for their brother without their father Helios' permission.
She is sometimes listed as among the Heliades, daughters of Helios and Clymene who mourned for their brother Phaethon and were transformed into poplar trees. In the Argonautica however, set explicitly after Phaethon's death, she and her sister are still tending to their father's flock.
However, unlike other ancient authors, who mention that Phaenon was the name of the 'star of Cronus' (the planet Saturn), [4] [5] [6] Hyginus, who tells this story based on Heraclides Ponticus, reports that Phaenon was transformed into the 'star of Jove' (the planet Jupiter), which others commonly say was named Phaethon, which Hyginus, citing ...