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- Phaethon – Mythopedia
Phaethon was a mortal child of the sun god Helios who foolishly wished to ride his father’s chariot across the sky Unfortunately, he lost control of the divine chariot, causing immense damage to the earth and ultimately falling to his death
- Helios - Mythopedia
The Fall of Phaethon by Jan Carel van Eyck (1636–1638) Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain Jl FilpoC CC BY-SA 4 0 Phaethon’s death was, of course, a terrible blow to both of his parents But it was Phaethon’s sisters (or half-sisters), usually known as the Heliades, who were the most heartbroken of all
- Eos - Mythopedia
But Eos’ mortal children tended to meet sad ends For example, Emathion, one of the sons of Eos and Tithonus, was killed by Heracles, while Phaethon, sometimes called the son of Eos and Cephalus (see above), died while attempting to drive the chariot of the sun Eos had a more prominent role in the myth of her son Memnon
- Ino - Mythopedia
Ino, daughter of Cadmus, was the wife of King Athamas of Boeotia She was driven mad by Hera as a punishment for rearing Dionysus, the illegitimate son of Hera’s husband Zeus After throwing herself into the sea with her young son, Ino was transformed into the sea goddess Leucothea
- Hephaestus - Mythopedia
Etymology As with many Greek deities, there is no reliable etymology for the name “Hephaestus ” The first known recording of the name (or a form of it) is in an inscription on the palace at Knossos on Crete, where it appears as a-pa-i-ti-jo in the syllabic Linear B script used in Bronze Age Greece (ca 1600–1100 BCE)
- Metamorphoses: Book 2 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
The Story of Phaeton THE Sun’s bright palace, on high columns rais’d, With burnish’d gold and flaming jewels blaz’d; The folding gates diffus’d a silver light, And with a milder gleam refresh’d the sight; Of polish’d iv’ry was the cov’ring wrought: The matter vied not with the sculptor’s thought, For in the portal was display’d on high (The work of Vulcan) a fictitious
- Zeus - Mythopedia
When Phaethon, the mortal son of Helios, lost control of the chariot of the sun, it was Zeus who struck the boy down to prevent him from scorching the earth [102] Zeus was also known to punish egregious wrongdoing, as when he shipwrecked the Argonauts for killing Apsyrtus, [103] or when he caused Alcmaeon’s children to grow to adulthood in
- Andromeda - Mythopedia
Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, was a beautiful princess of Ethiopia Offered up as a sacrifice to Poseidon as punishment for her mother’s foolish boasts, Andromeda was rescued from death by Perseus, who took her back to Greece to be his queen
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