phaethon
Speech parts
1. phaethon - Noun
2. Phaethon - Proper noun
Meaning
The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.
A genus of oceanic birds including the tropic birds.
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Examples
At age 24, his opera Phaethon was performed for the first time, to an audience who booed and heckled it.
It is possible that the name Asia became preferred over Hesiod's Clymene to avoid confusion with what must be a different Oceanid named Clymene, who was mother of Phaethon by Helios in some accounts.