Phaethon

Roman/Ovidian demigod, son of the sun-god Sol (Phoebus) by the Oceanid Clymene. His doomed ride in the chariot of the sun, ending in his fall and death by Jupiter thunderbolt, is told in Ovid Metamorphoses 2; his sisters the Heliades wept amber for him. Named in the registry as the son of Sol (the family tree links from his parentIds).

Parentage

• paternal: Sol

Domains

• sun

Epithets

• Phaethon Greek · Phaethon · literarythe Shining/Radiant oneOvid, Metamorphoses 2 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.750-2.400; Hyginus, Fabulae 152-154 (primary)
• parentage: Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.750-779, 2.19-30 (son of Sol/Phoebus and Clymene) (primary)