Phaethon

Family: gods · Role: son of Tithonus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.14

Life events

• Aphrodite seized Phaethon and made him keeper of her shrine by night.(Hesiod, Theogony 979-1021)
  • With: Aphrodite
  • “Aphrodite seized and caught up and made a keeper of her shrine by night, a divine spirit.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.14

• parent: Tithonus “who had a son Phaethon”
• child: Astynous “who had a son Astynous”

Hesiod, Theogony 979-1021

• parent: Eos “And to Cephalus she bare a splendid son, strong Phaethon, a man like the gods”
• parent: Cephalus “And to Cephalus she bare a splendid son, strong Phaethon, a man like the gods”
• employer: Aphrodite (Aphrodite made Phaethon keeper of her shrine.) “laughter-loving Aphrodite seized and caught up and made a keeper of her shrine by night, a divine spirit.”

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