Phaethon

Definition:

1. Phaethon was the son of Helios and the sea-nymph Clymene. He drove his father's chariot one day and rode the chariot alternately too close to the earth and the sun thereby setting the earth on fire. To stop it, Zeus killed him with a bolt of lightning.
2. Phaethon is one of the horses of Eos / Aurora (Dawn).

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