This figure's body fell into the river Eridanus, and his sisters were turned into poplar trees while mourning him, their tears turning into amber.
This figure's body fell into the river Eridanus, and his sisters were turned into poplar trees while mourning him, their tears turning into amber. His tomb reads, "Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared." This character's mother Clymene was the wife of Merops, the King of Ethiopia, but she told him that Merops was not his real father. He eventually was killed by a thunderbolt in order to save the earth after he had already burned the skins of the Ethiopians. Name this boy who wanted to be like his immortal father Helios and tried to drive his chariot.
This figure's body fell into the river Eridanus, and his sisters were turned into poplar trees while mourning him, their tears turning into amber.
Phaethon