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Phaethon asks his father for the chariot, engraving by Hendrik Goltzius, 1590. Nonnus' late version of the story is one of the two extensive narratives to survive, the other being Ovid's. Unlike other versions, Nonnus' is one of the few where Phaethon is a legitimate offspring of a married couple, with his motivation shifting from need to prove ...
3200 Phaethon (/ ˈ f eɪ. ə ˌ θ ɒ n /; previously sometimes spelled Phæton), provisionally designated 1983 TB, is an active [8] Apollo asteroid with an orbit that brings it closer to the Sun than any other named asteroid (though there are numerous unnamed asteroids with smaller perihelia, such as (137924) 2000 BD 19). [9]
Phaethon, first king of the Bronze Age Molossians; Dark photon, also called phaeton, a hypothetical dark matter particle; Phaethon, genus name of the three tropicbird species; Phaeton, Haiti, an old factory town; Phaethon (roller coaster), a steel inverted roller coaster at Gyeongju World in South Korea
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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]
Phaeton (alternatively Phaethon / ˈ f eɪ. ə θ ən / or Phaëton / ˈ f eɪ. ə t ən /; from Ancient Greek: Φαέθων, romanized: Phaéthōn, pronounced [pʰa.é.tʰɔːn]) is a hypothetical planet hypothesized by the Titius–Bode law to have existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the destruction of which supposedly led to the formation of the asteroid belt (including the ...
Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...
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 ...