Phaethontides

Or Phaethontiades, i.e. the daughters of Phaethon or Helios, and sisters of the unfortunate Phaethon. They are also called Heliades.

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References

Sources

  • Palatine Anthology ix, 782.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Virgil. Eclogues, vi, 62.

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