Phaeton
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Phaeton, Phaëton, Phaethon, or Phaëthon may refer to:
In Greek mythology, several figures with astral associations:
In transportation
In music
In popular culture
In other
In Greek mythology, several figures with astral associations:
- PhaëtonPhaëtonIn Greek mythology, Phaëton or Phaethon was the son of Helios and the Oceanid Clymene. Alternate, less common genealogies make him a son of Clymenus by Merope, of Helios and Rhode or of Helios and Prote....
, son of HeliosHeliosHelios was the personification of the Sun in Greek mythology. Homer often calls him simply Titan or Hyperion, while Hesiod and the Homeric Hymn separate him as a son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia or Euryphaessa and brother of the goddesses Selene, the moon, and Eos, the dawn... - Phaethon (son of Eos)Phaethon (son of Eos)In Greek mythology, Phaethon was a son of Eos by Cephalus or Tithonus, born in Syria. Aphrodite stole him away while he was no more than a child to be the night-watchman at her most sacred shrines. The Minoans called him Adymus, by which they meant the morning and evening star.Phaethon was the...
, guardian of the temples of Aphrodite - Phaethon, personification of the planet now known as JupiterJupiterJupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn,...
- Phaethon, one of the horses of EosEosIn Greek mythology, Eos is the Titan goddess of the dawn, who rose from her home at the edge of Oceanus, the ocean that surrounds the world, to herald her brother Helios, the Sun.- Greek literature :...
- Phaethon, a lost play by EuripidesEuripidesEuripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most...
In transportation
- HMS PhaetonHMS PhaetonSeveral ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Phaeton orPhaëton after Phaëton, the son of Helios in Greek mythology:* HMS Phaeton, a purpose-built fireship launched in 1691, was expended against the French Navy at La Hogue in 1692....
has been the name of several ships of the British Royal Navy - Phaeton (carriage)Phaeton (carriage)Phaeton is the early 19th-century term for a sporty open carriage drawn by a single horse or a pair, typically with four extravagantly large wheels, very lightly sprung, with a minimal body, fast and dangerous. It usually had no sidepieces in front of the seats...
, a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle, named from a fanciful association with the mythological figure - Phaeton bodyPhaeton bodyA Phaeton is a style of open car or carriage without proper weather protection for passengers. Use of this name for automobiles was limited to North America or its products....
, an automobile body style - 1929 Graham Paige DC Phaeton1929 Graham Paige DC PhaetonThe 1929 Graham Paige DC Phaeton Model 835 car was powered by a 5279 cc eight cylinder engine and had an aluminum body, balloon tires and pressed steel wheels. The coachwork styling was by LeBaron and featured a 'double cowl', hence the 'DC' name....
- Chrysler Imperial Parade PhaetonChrysler Imperial Parade PhaetonThree Chrysler Imperial Parade Phaetons were produced in 1952 by the Chrysler Corporation as ceremonial vehicles. They were styled by Virgil Exner and were in many ways a preview of the new "Forward Look" styling that would debut in 1955 on the newly separate Imperial marque and on other full-size...
, 1952 vehicle made for ceremonial purposes such as ticker-tape parades - Chrysler PhaetonChrysler PhaetonThe Chrysler Phaeton, not to be confused with the Volkswagen Phaeton, was a four-door convertible sedan concept car built by Chrysler in 1997....
, 1997 concept car - Volkswagen PhaetonVolkswagen PhaetonThe Volkswagen Phaeton is a full-size luxury sedan/saloon manufactured by German automaker Volkswagen, and is described by Volkswagen as their "premium class" vehicle...
, luxury sedan produced since 2002 - Tiffin Phaeton, class A motorhome produced since 2005
In music
- Phaëton (Lully)Phaëton (Lully)Phaëton is a tragédie en musique in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Philippe Quinault wrote the French libretto after a story from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It was premiered at Versailles on January 6, 1683, and can be read as an allegorical depiction of the punishment awaiting those...
, a tragédie en musique by Jean-Baptiste Lully - "Phaëton", the second movement from Six Metamorphoses after OvidSix Metamorphoses after OvidEnglish composer Benjamin Britten composed the program music Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for solo Oboe in 1951. Intended to evoke images of the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses, the piece is dedicated to oboist Joy Boughton who gave the first performance at the Aldeburgh Festival on 14 June 1951...
by English composer Benjamin Britten - Phaéton, a symphonic poemSymphonic poemA symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music in a single continuous section in which the content of a poem, a story or novel, a painting, a landscape or another source is illustrated or evoked. The term was first applied by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt to his 13 works in this vein...
by Camille Saint-SaënsCamille Saint-SaënsCharles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
In popular culture
- PhaethonPhaethon (roller coaster)Phaethon is a steel inverted roller coaster at Gyeongju World in South Korea, which is opened in 2007. It is South Korea's first inverted roller coaster- Track layout :...
, an inverted roller coasterInverted roller coasterAn inverted roller coaster is a roller coaster in which the train runs under the track with the seats directly attached to the wheel carriage. This latter attribute is what sets it apart from the older suspended coaster, which runs under the track, but "swings" via a pivoting bar attached to the...
at Gyeongju World in South KoreaSouth KoreaThe Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south... - Phaeton, fictional villainous leader of the "Neosapiens" in the animated television series ExosquadExosquadExosquad is an American animated television series created by Universal Cartoon Studios as a response to Japanese anime. The show is set in the beginning of the 22nd century and covers the interplanetary war between humanity and Neosapiens, a fictional race artificially created as workers/slaves...
- Phaethon of Rhadamanth, fictional protagonist of the SF trilogy The Golden Age
- Phaeton (hypothetical planet)Phaeton (hypothetical planet)Phaeton is the name of a hypothetical planet posited to once have existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter whose destruction supposedly led to the formation of the asteroid belt...
, a hypothetical location between Mars and Jupiter, often cited in science fiction - Phaeton, the name of Earth's first starship, the setting of the television series VirtualityVirtuality (TV series)Virtuality is a television pilot co-written by Ronald D. Moore and Michael Taylor and directed by Peter Berg that aired on the Fox network. Since the show was never picked up as a television series, the two-hour pilot episode aired as a movie on June 26, 2009.- Plot :The story is set aboard the...
- Phaeton, a minor character in The Elfqueen of Shannara by Terry BrooksTerry BrooksTerence Dean "Terry" Brooks is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career, and has over 21 million copies of his books in print...
In other
- 3200 Phaethon3200 Phaethon3200 Phaethon is an asteroid with an unusual orbit that brings it closer to the Sun than any other named asteroid . For this reason, it was named after the Greek myth of Phaëton, son of the sun god Helios...
, small asteroid or comet responsible for the GeminidsGeminidsThe Geminids are a meteor shower caused by the object 3200 Phaethon, which is thought to be a Palladian asteroid. This would make the Geminids, together with the Quadrantids, the only major meteor showers not originating from a comet...
meteor shower - Phaethon, first king of the Bronze Age MolossiansMolossiansThe Molossians were an ancient Greek tribe that inhabited the region of Epirus since the Mycenaean era. On their northeast frontier they had the Chaonians and to their southern frontier the kingdom of the Thesprotians, to their north were the Illyrians. The Molossians were part of the League of...
who arrived with PelasgusPelasgusIn Greek mythology, Pelasgus was the eponymous ancestor of the Pelasgians, the mythical inhabitants of Greece who established the worship of the Dodonaean Zeus, Hephaestus, the Cabeiri, and other divinities. In the different parts of the country once occupied by Pelasgians, there existed... - Phaethon, genus name of the three tropicbirdTropicbirdTropicbirds are a family, Phaethontidae, of tropical pelagic seabirds now classified in their own order Phaethontiformes. Their relationship to other living birds is unclear, and they appear to have no close relatives. There are three species in one genus, Phaethon...
species - Phaeton, HaitiPhaeton, HaitiPhaeton is a town in Fort-Liberte Area, Nord-Est Department of Haiti.An old factory town like its counterpart, Derac. As part of the Dauphin Plantation residential area, it had a railraod route, an airport, a power plant which was used to power the city of Fort-Liberté, tough poorly served, until...
, a town in the Nord-Est Department of Haiti