Phaethon – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Phaethon
Phaeton
Phaeton,
Phaëton,
Phaethon, or
Phaëthon may refer to:
In Greek mythology
Several figures with astral associations:
Phaethon
Noun
1. (Greek mythology) son of Helios; killed when trying to drive his father's chariot and came too close to earth
(hypernym) Greek deity
(classification) Greek mythology
2. type genus of the Phaethontidae
(synonym) genus Phaethon
(hypernym) bird genus
(member-holonym) Phaethontidae, family Phaethontidae
(member-meronym) tropic bird, tropicbird, boatswain bird
phaëthon
n.
phaeton
Phaethon
(n.)
The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.
(n.)
A genus of oceanic birds including the tropic birds.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Phaeton
[Greek] The son of the sun-god Helios. When Phaeton ("the shining one") finally learned who his father was, he went east to meet him. He induced his father to allow him to drive the chariot of the sun across the heavens for one day. The horses, feeling their reins held by a weaker hand, ran wildly out of their course and came close to the earth, threatening to burn it. Zeus noticed the danger and with a thunderbolt he destroyed Phaeton. He fell down into the legendary river Eridanus where he was found by the river nymphs who mourned him and buried him. The tears of these nymphs turned into amber. For the Ethiopians however it was already too late: they were scorched by the heat and their skins had turned black.
