Figure Greek and Roman
Phaethon
Φαέθων grc Phaëthon la
Son of Helios from Greek mythology
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
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Family
The family of Phaethon
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 20
Kinship in an account 8
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Helios Greek god and personification of the Sun - child of (child) Klymene Oceanid in Greek mythology
- child of (child) Merope Oceanid of Greek mythology
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partner of Aphrodite Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation - sibling of Aegiale in Greek mythology, daughter of Helios and Clymene
- sibling of Astris in Greek mythology, one of the Heliades
- sibling of Lampetia daughter of Helius in Greek myth
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sibling of Phaethusa daughter of Helios and Neaera, in Greek mythology
Family 12
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a marriage · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (father) Clymenus mythical king of Boeotia, son of Helius
- child of (father) Helios Greek god and personification of the Sun
- child of (mother) Klymene Oceanid in Greek mythology
- child of (mother) Merope Oceanid of Greek mythology
- parent of (child) Eretrieus Titan, mythical founder of Eretria
- partner of Aphrodite Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation
- partner of Cycnus king of Liguria, son of Sthenelus
- sibling of Aegiale in Greek mythology, daughter of Helios and Clymene
- sibling of Astris in Greek mythology, one of the Heliades
- sibling of Lampetia daughter of Helius in Greek myth
- sibling of Merope Greek mythology: daughter of Helios
- sibling of Phaethusa daughter of Helios and Neaera, in Greek mythology
Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
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Sources
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14 statements on this record
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- 12 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
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