person
Phaethon
also: Phaethonta
Son of the Sun who drove his father's chariot, scorched the earth, and was struck down by Jupiter's bolt. Lucretius cites the tale as a Greek poetic fancy, not a true account of an age of fire.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of Things §5.25 Phaethon
Son of the Sun who drove his father's chariot, scorched the earth, and was struck down by Jupiter's bolt; Lucretius cites the myth only as a poetic fancy.