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Driving The Sun God In Phaëthon By Edith Hamilton

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“Phaëthon”, as written by Edith Hamilton, is about a young boy, whose father is the Sun God. The boy was skeptical about the god being is father at first, but the sun god promises to do anything the boy wishes, and he swears this under the Styx, that his is his father. Soon later, the boy returns, and requests to drive the sun god's chariot. The sun god cannot say no to his son, Phaëthon, so he just warns him of the dangers that driving his chariot brings. Phaëthon does not listen to his father's warnings, and he decides to drive the chariot. At first, he has very little difficulties driving the chariot, but it soon gets tougher. As the pace got faster, the dreaded things the sun god warned Phaëthon about, started to appear. Soon later, the
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