Φαέθων

See also: φαέθων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Use as a proper noun of the masculine forms of φᾰέθων (phaéthōn, “shining”, “radiant”), the present active participle of φᾰέθω (phaéthō, “I shine”, “I am radiant”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰa.é.tʰɔːn/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰaˈe.tʰon/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸaˈe.θon/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /faˈe.θon/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /faˈe.θon/

Proper noun

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

one of the light-bringing steeds of Eos
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.246
son of Eos and Cephalus
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 987
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 345a.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
the planet Jupiter
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On the Universe 392a.24
- Eudox., Ars 5.14
- 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, ND 2.20.52

Declension

Third declension of ὁ Φᾰέθων; τοῦ Φᾰέθοντος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Φᾰέθων ho Phaéthōn
Genitive	τοῦ Φᾰέθοντος toû Phaéthontos
Dative	τῷ Φᾰέθοντῐ tôi Phaéthonti
Accusative	τὸν Φᾰέθοντᾰ tòn Phaéthonta
Vocative	Φᾰέθον Phaéthon
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Φᾰεθόντειος (Phaethónteios)
Φᾰεθοντιάς (Phaethontiás)
Φᾰεθόντιος (Phaethóntios)
Φᾰεθοντίς (Phaethontís)

Related terms

Φᾰέθουσᾰ (Phaéthousa)

Descendants

Greek: Φαέθων (Faéthon), Φαέθοντας (Faéthontas)
Latin: Phaëthōn
Russian: Фаэто́н (Faetón)

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