Phaethon was the son of the titan god of the sun, Helios, and Clymene an ocean nymph. Phaethon, whose name means “shining” or “radiant”, had seven sisters known as the Heliades, daughters of the sun. The story of Phaethon, like many greek myths, does not have a happy ending, and although we know that his story was a popular one for Greek tragedies, with Aeschylus’ The Heliades and Euripides’ Phaethon, neither of these survive and so our most complete version of his tale comes from Ovid, the Roman writer who lived during the appointment and reign of the first emperor of the Roman Empire, Augustus Caesar.
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