A king performed this activity while throwing torches and rattling bronze cauldrons in order to (*) trick his subjects into thinking he was Zeus, leading that king, Salmoneus, to be struck by Zeus's lightning.
After dying while performing this activity, Glaucus haunted the Isthmus of Corinth as a ghost called Taraxippus. Admetus performed this activity with a wild boar and lion in order to win Alcestis's hand, and Idas won Evenus's daughter Marpessa by performing it. A king performed this activity while throwing torches and rattling bronze cauldrons in order to (*) trick his subjects into thinking he was Zeus, leading that king, Salmoneus, to be struck by Zeus's lightning. Myrtilus sabotaged Oenomaus's performance of this activity with wax linchpins in order to aid Pelops. While engaged in this activity, Hypolitus was surprised by a monster sent by Poseidon and dragged to death. For 10 points, Phaethon was killed while trying to perform what activity, which his father, the sun god Helios, performed daily with a team of four horses?
After dying while performing this activity, Glaucus haunted the Isthmus of Corinth as a ghost called Taraxippus.
driving a chariot [or chariot racing; or charioteering; prompt on answers like racing or driving horses]