Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Φᾰέθων • ‎(Phaéthōn) m ‎(genitive Φᾰέθοντος); third declension

1. one of the light-bringing steeds of Eos
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.246
2. son of Eos and Cephalus
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 987
3. Phaëthon (son of Helios, famous for his unlucky driving of the sun-chariot, and subject of a play by Euripides)
   • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 739
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 345.a.15
   1. the Sun
      • Doroth., Cat.Cod.Astr. 2.82
      • 350 CE – 450 CE, Nonnus, Dionysiaca 5.81
   2. the constellation Auriga
      • 350 CE – 450 CE, Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.357
      • 350 CE – 450 CE, Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38.424
4. the planet Jupiter
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On the Universe 392.a.24
   • Eudox., Ars 5.14
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, ND 2.20.52

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• Φᾰέθουσᾰ

Descendants

References

• Φαέθων in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
• Φαέθων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Ancient Greek

Participle

φᾰέθων • ‎(phaéthōn) m, φᾰέθουσᾰ f, φᾰ́εθον n; first/third declension

1. shining, radiant

Declension