Phaethusa

"Radiance." A daughter of Helios and Neaera. She carried a copper staff with which she tended her father's herds of cattle, consisting of 350 heads, on the island of Thrinacia (Sicily). Her sister Lampetia tended Helios' flocks of sheep. She is listed by Ovid1 among the Heliades.

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References

Notes

  1. Metamorphoses ii, 346.

Sources

  • Aken, Dr. A.R.A. van. (1961). Elseviers Mythologische Encyclopedie. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  • Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautica iv, 971.
  • Homer. Odyssey xii, 128 ff.