Phaethon

Mortal son of Helios and the Oceanid Clymene. To prove his divine parentage he begged his father for a single day at the reins of the sun-chariot, but the immortal horses bolted and scorched the sky. Zeus struck him down with a thunderbolt to save the world, and he fell into the river Eridanus. His sisters the Heliades, weeping on the banks, were turned into poplar trees and their tears into amber.

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