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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.
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]
Chariot fitting representing Usil, 500–475 BCE, Hermitage Museum. Usil is the Etruscan god of the sun, shown to be identified with Apulu ().His iconic depiction features Usil rising out of the sea, with a fireball in either outstretched hand, on an engraved Etruscan bronze mirror in late Archaic style, formerly on the Roman antiquities market. [1]
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.
Ion (/ ˈ aɪ ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Ἴων, Iōn) is an ancient Greek play by Euripides, thought to have been written between 414 and 412 BC.It follows the orphan Ion, a young and willing servant in Apollo's temple, as he inadvertently discovers his biological origins.
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 ...
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.