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Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
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Phaëthon
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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E . the shining one, and so called from his father), the son of Helios ( q. v .); persuaded his father to allow him for one day to drive the chariot of the sun across the heavens, but was too weak to check the horses, so that they rushed off their wonted track and nearly set the world on fire, whereupon Zeus transfixed him with a thunderbolt, metamorphosed his sisters who had yoked the horses for him into poplars and their tears into amber.
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Bibliography Information
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Phaëthon'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/phathon.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Phaëthon'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/phathon.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
