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Roman · demigod · primordial · demigod

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).

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