• Greek mythology, Phaethon (/ˈfeɪ.əθən/; Ancient Greek: Φαέθων, Phaéthōn, pronounced [pʰa.é.tʰɔːn]) was a son of Eos by Cephalus of Athens or Tithonus...
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    Phaethon (/ˈfeɪ.əθən/; Ancient Greek: Φαέθων, romanized: Phaéthōn, lit. 'shiner', pronounced [pʰa.é.tʰɔːn]), also spelled Phaëthon, is the son of the...
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    a son of Eos by Cephalus (like Phaethon) who became king of Cyprus, an island that was regarded as Aphrodite's birthplace. This suggest a mixture of Mycenaean...
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  • refer to one of the following characters in Greek mythology: Astynous, son of Phaethon, son of Eos. He was the father of King Sandocus of Celendreis who...
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    Helios (category Consorts of Selene)
    goddesses Selene (the Moon) and Eos (the Dawn). Helios' most notable role in Greek mythology is the story of his mortal son Phaethon. In the Homeric epics, his...
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    stories of two Phaethons, that of the son of Helios who drove his father's car and died, and that of Phaethon the son of Helios' sister Eos whom Aphrodite...
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    Sirius (mythology) (category Children of Eos)
    playwright of Middle Comedy Amphis, and a work of the same name by Amphis's contemporary Alexis. It also parallels the tale of young Phaethon, the son of the...
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  • Phaeton (redirect from Phaёthon)
    Jupiter Phaethon, son of Helios, personification of the Sun Phaethon of Syria, guardian of the temples of Aphrodite Phaethon, one of the horses of Eos Phaeton...
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    his will when he was hunting. Eos bore the resistant Cephalus a son named Phaethon (not to be confused with the son of the sun-god Helios). Some sources...
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  • Planetae (category Children of Eos)
    surviving works of Greek literature. Homer mentions them in the Iliad and the Odyssey, and in the Theogony, Hesiod calls Phosphorus the son of Eos. In these...
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    Tithonus (category Consorts of Eos)
    alternative version of the myth, mentioned by Pseudo-Apollodorus, Tithonus was the son of Cephalus, another lover of Eos, and father of Phaethon. In the Homeric...
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    albedo features of Mars are the light and dark features that can be seen on the planet Mars through an Earth-based telescope. Before the age of space probes...
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    Zephyrus (category Children of Eos)
    is the god and personification of the West wind, one of the several wind gods, the Anemoi. The son of Eos (the goddess of the dawn) and Astraeus, Zephyrus...
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  • Lampus, one of the two horses that drove the chariot of Eos, the other one being Phaethon[AI-generated source?] Lampus, one of the four horses of Helios,...
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    Selene (category Consorts of Pan (god))
    Ovid mentions how in the myth of Phaethon, Helios' son who drove his father's chariot for a day, when Phaethon lost control of the chariot and burned the...
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    Theia came the celestial personifications Helios (Sun), Selene (Moon), and Eos (Dawn). From Iapetus and Clymene came Atlas, Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus...
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    named Clymene, who was mother of Phaethon by Helios in some accounts. Roman, Luke; Roman, Monica (2010). Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology. Infobase...
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    Zeus (redirect from Son of Zeus)
    Helios the sun god gave his chariot to his inexperienced son Phaethon to drive. Phaethon could not control his father's steeds so he ended up taking...
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    Hemera (category Eos)
    Hemera and Eos (Dawn) were often identified with each other. In Hesiod's Theogony, Hemera and her brother Aether were the offspring of Erebus and Nyx...
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    Trojan War (redirect from Battle of Troy)
    Apollo, Artemis, and Leto. While they were away, Memnon of Ethiopia, son of Tithonus and Eos, came with his host to help his stepbrother Priam. He did...
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  • good friend of Phaethon, when Phaethon died, he sat by the river Eridanos mourning his death. The gods turned him into a swan to relieve him of his pity...
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    Achilles (category Kings of the Myrmidons)
    the death of Patroclus, Nestor's son Antilochus becomes Achilles' closest companion. When Memnon, son of the Dawn Goddess Eos and king of Ethiopia, slays...
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  • the Olympians. Eos (Dawn) and the hero Memnon (490–480 BC) Helios in his four-horse chariot (3rd century BC) Themis, from the Temple of Nemesis (ca. 300...
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  • of Ares and Otrera, a Queen of the Amazons. Perseus: son of Zeus and mortal princess Danae, whom he impregnated as a golden shower. Phaethon: son of Helios...
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    entirely different from those of both Eos and the Vedic deity Ushas. Modern scholars, due to the believed Near Eastern origins of Aphrodite's worship, have...
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    mother of Eos (Dawn), while according to Byzantine author Tzetzes, she is the mother of the Moirai, apparently by the Titan Cronus. In the Dionysiaca of Nonnus...
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    Theogony (redirect from The birth of gods)
    Autonoe and Polydorus. Eos (Dawn) with the mortal Tithonus, produced the hero Memnon, and Emathion, and with Cephalus, produced Phaethon. Medea with the mortal...
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    Heracles (redirect from Glory of Hera)
     'glory/fame of Hera'), born Alcaeus (Ἀλκαῖος, Alkaios) or Alcides (Ἀλκείδης, Alkeidēs), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene...
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  • pantheon of gods included mortal-born heroes and heroines who were elevated to godhood through a process which the Greeks termed apotheosis. Some of these...
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    traditions. Homer's Odyssey describes the horses of Eos as a pair of swift steeds named Lampos and Phaethon, and Bacchylides calls her 'white-horsed Dawn'...
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