But, if I indeed am sprung from heavenly stock, give me sure proof of my high birth, confirm my claim to heaven.’ I'm ashamed that he could so insult me and that I could not repulse him. ‘And to grieve you more, dear mother, I so frank,’ he said, ‘So fiery, stood there silent. Then Phaethon flushed, though shame checked his rage, and took those taunts to Clymene, his mother.
‘You fool,’ he said, ‘To credit all your mother says that birth you boast about is false.’ His peer in pride and years was Phaethon, child of Phoebus, whose arrogance one day and boasts of his high parentage were more than Inachides could bear. By Clymene, daughter of Oceanus, Phaethon, Lampetie, Aegle, Phoebe." They are, then, Merope, Helie, Aegle, Lampetia, Phoebe, Aetherie, Dioxippe." Their tears, as Hesiod tells, hardened into amber in spite of the change they are called Heliades. The sister of Phaethon, too, in grieving for their brother, were changed into poplar trees.
The Indians became black, because their blood was turned to a dark color from the heat that came near. This river is called Eridanus by the Greeks Pherecydes was the first to name it. For when he was carried too mear the earth, everyithing burned in the fire that came near, and, struck by a thunderbolt, he fell into the river Po. "Phaethon, son of Clymenus, son of Sol (the Sun), and the Nymph Merope, who, as we have heard was and Oceanid, upon being told by his father that his grandfather was Sol, put to bad use the chariot he asked for. "From Sol (the Sun) and Clymene : Phaethon and the Phaethontides Merope, Helie, Aetherie, Dioxippe." The summary of Hyginus and Ovid's version may derive from his play. Presumably his mother Klymene or Merope played an important role in the drama.Įuripides, Phaethon (lost play) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) :Įuripides' version of the story differed somewhat from Aeschylus treatment of the myth. Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.Īeschylus, Heliades (lost play) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) :Īeschylus' lost play Heliades described the story of Phaethon. A daughter of Oceanus, and by Clymenus the mother of Phaëton. 204), she was the mother of Phaëton by Helios. ASTRIS (by Helios) (Nonnus Dionysiaca 17.269)ĬLY′MENE (Klumenê). PHAETHON, THE HELIADES (by Klymenos) (Hyginus Fabulae 154) PHAETHON, THE HELIADES (by Helios) (Hyginus Preface & Fabulae 156, Ovid Metamorphoses 1.750, Nonnus Dionysiaca 38.108) OKEANOS & TETHYS (Nonnus Dionysiaca 38.108)
Klymene appears to be unrelated to the wife of the Titan Iapetos who was also named Klymene and described as a daughter of Okeanos.
Both of their names mean "the famous one" and Klymene's title Merope ("with turning face") aptly describes the behaviour of the flower. Klymene was probably also identified with Klytie (Clytia), a nymph loved by Helios who was transformed into a heliotrope flower. However the poets came to associate the name with the Aithiopian (Ethiopian) kingdom and city of Merope whose people were said to have been scorched black by Phaethon when he lost control of the chariot of the sun. The first may have originally been a reference to the solar eclipse, in which the sun's face is turned away ( merops). She was also named Merope meaning "with face-turned"-from the Greek words meros and ops)-or "wife of Merops". Klymene was the personification of fame and infamy, an appropriate consort for the bright sun. The boy was killed when he attempted to drive his father's chariot across the sky, and his sisters were transformed into poplar trees. She bore him seven daughters, the Heliad-nymphs, and a son named Phaethon. KLYMENE (Clymene) was an Okeanid-nymph loved by the sun-god Helios.
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