Phaethon

Stories tagged Phaethon:

• The Myth of Phaethon Jul 29, 2025

  

  In the eastern lands where the River Po winds through fertile valleys and the morning sun first touches the earth, there lived a young man whose beauty was matched only by his pride and whose fate would serve as one of mythology’s most powerful warnings about the dangers of overreaching ambition. His name was Phaethon, and his story is a tale of divine parentage, mortal recklessness, and the catastrophic consequences that can follow when youth and pride combine to challenge the fundamental order of the cosmos.