Phaethon

"Shining." A son of Cephalus and Eos, was carried off by Aphrodite, who appointed him guardian of her temple. Apollodorus1 calls him a son of Tithonus, and grandson of Cephalus, and Pausanias2 a son of Cephalus and Hemera.

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References

Notes

  1. The Library iii, 14.3.
  2. Description of Greece i, 3.1.

Sources

  • Hesiod. Theogony, 986.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.