Phaethon

Phaethon was the demigod son of Helios, the Titan of the Sun and the Oceanid Clymene and the younger brother of the Heliades.

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Phaethon was born as the youngest child and only son of Helios and Clymene, who had seven older daughters known as the Heliades. Helios had left to return to his godly duties shortly after Phaethon's birth. Clymene told her son stories about Helios.

As Phaethon grew up, Clymene was overprotective of him and wouldn't allow him to take part in sports at school, which resulted in him not having many friends. When he was sixteen, Phaethon came upon Prince Epaphos showing off his new chariot to a crowd. When Phaethon criticised the chariot, saying that his father's was better, Epaphos demanded proof from Phaethon that he was indeed the son of Helios.

After arriving home, Phaethon told his mother that he wished to see his father, and was told to go to his palace. Phaethon traveled to Helios' palace and met his father and asked to ride his sun chariot, which Helios reluctantly agreed to. However, Phaethon was unable to control the chariot's horses and ended up setting the Earth ablaze and scorching the African plains to desert.

Appalled at the incident, Zeus used one of his lightning bolts to blast Phaethon out of the chariot, killing him. His body then hurled into the river Eridanos, were it was found by his sisters, who mourned his death and turned into amber-teared poplar trees.

Following his death, Phaethon either became the constellation Auriga or became God of the Wandering Star.