person
Phaethon
Son of the Sun who lost control of his father's chariot and was struck down; Medea, also of the Sun's line, calls him 'my kinsman.'
Reading notes
- On Providence §5.11 noble youth
Phaethon, son of the Sun-god, who insisted on driving his father's chariot across the sky and was destroyed; Seneca quotes Ovid's Metamorphoses (2.63–81) to figure virtue's perilous ascent — virtue "goes by the heights."
- Hercules on Oeta §599 while the boy sought to furnish a single day
Phaethon, who drove the Sun's chariot off course and scorched the world; the type of the catastrophic mean abandoned.
- Hercules on Oeta §860 at wandering Phaethon
Phaethon, blasted from the Sun's car by Jupiter's bolt; Deianira asks for the like.
- Medea §595 the youth who dared to drive the eternal chariot
Phaethon, son of the Sun, who lost control of his father's chariot and was struck down by Jupiter.
- Medea §817 my kinsman Phaethon
Phaethon, son of the Sun and so Medea's kinsman; she claims the 'living flame' of his fatal fall.
- Phaedra §1087 Phaethon
Son of the Sun who begged to drive his father's chariot, lost control, and was hurled from the sky.