Phaeton, Phaëton, Phaethon, Phæton, or Phaëthon may refer to:

Art

Phaëton (Lully) ''Phaëton'' (LWV 61) is a '' tragédie en musique'' in a prologue and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Philippe Quinault wrote the French libretto after a story from Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''. It can be read as an allegorical depiction of the ...

tragédie lyrique This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first ''commonly'' used in Italy (or in other countries) to refer to the genre of particular works. Most c ...

by Jean Baptiste Lully * ''Phaethon'' (composition), 1986 composition by Christopher Rouse * ''The Fall of Phaeton'' (Rubens), a painting by Peter Paul Rubens *

Phaethon Phaethon (; grc, Φαέθων, Phaéthōn, ), also spelled Phaëthon, was the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the sun-god Helios in Greek mythology. According to most authors, Phaethon is the son of Helios, and out of desire to have his paren ...

, a lost play by

Euripides Euripides (; grc, Εὐριπίδης, Eurīpídēs, ; ) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars ...

Astronomy

3200 Phaethon 3200 Phaethon (previously sometimes spelled Phaeton), provisional designation , is an active Apollo asteroid with an orbit that brings it closer to the Sun than any other named asteroid (though there are numerous unnamed asteroids with small ...

, small asteroid or comet responsible for the Geminids meteor shower * Phaeton (hypothetical planet), a hypothetical fifth planet believed to have once existed between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and whose destruction supposedly led to the formation of the asteroid belt *

Phaethontis quadrangle The Phaethontis quadrangle is one of a series of 30 quadrangle maps of Mars used by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Astrogeology Research Program. The Phaethontis quadrangle is also referred to as MC-24 (Mars Chart-24). The name com ...

, a region on Mars

Biology

*''Phaethon'', genus name of the three

tropicbird Tropicbirds are a family, Phaethontidae, of tropical pelagic seabirds. They are the sole living representatives of the order Phaethontiformes. For many years they were considered part of the Pelecaniformes, but genetics indicates they are most ...

species

Greek mythology

, son of

Helios In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, mythology, Helios (; grc, , , Sun; Homeric Greek: ) is the deity, god and personification of the Sun (Solar deity). His name is also Latinized as Helius, and he is often given the epithets Hyper ...

, personification of the

Sun The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. The Sun radiates this energy mainly as light, ultraviolet, and infrared rad ...

, guardian of the temples of

Aphrodite Aphrodite ( ; grc-gre, Ἀφροδίτη, Aphrodítē; , , ) is an ancient Greek religion, ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion (emotion), passion, and procreation. She was syncretized with the Roman god ...

* Phaethon (horse), one of the horses of Eos

People

* Phaethon, first king of the Bronze Age

Molossians The Molossians () were a group of ancient Greek tribes which inhabited the region of Epirus in classical antiquity. Together with the Chaonians and the Thesprotians, they formed the main tribal groupings of the northwestern Greek group. On t ...

Physics

* Dark photon, also called phaeton, a hypothetical dark matter particle

Places

Phaeton, Nord-Est Phaeton ( ht, Fayeton) is a town in the Fort-Liberté Arrondissement, in the Nord-Est department of Haiti. It is an old factory town, like its neighbor, Derac, as part of the old Dauphin Plantation residential area. When the plantation still ope ...

, a town in Haiti

Vehicles

Phaeton body A phaeton is a style of open automobile without any fixed weather protection, which was popular from the 1900s until the 1930s. It is an automotive equivalent of the horse-drawn fast, lightweight phaeton carriage. A popular style in the U ...

, a style of open carriage or automobile *

Phaeton (carriage) A phaeton (also phaéton) was a form of sporty open carriage popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Drawn by one or two horses, a phaeton typically featured a minimal very lightly sprung body atop four extravagantly large ...

, a horse-drawn sporty open carriage *

Volkswagen Phaeton The Volkswagen Phaeton ( ) (''Typ'' 3D) is a full-size car, full-size luxury car, luxury sedan (automobile), sedan/saloon manufactured by the German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen, described by Volkswagen as their "premium class" vehicle. I ...

, a full-size luxury automobile built by Volkswagen until 2016 * Cadillac Phaeton, a full-size automobile built by Cadillac 1930-1940. * Ford Phaeton, a 2-doors or 4-doors automobile built by Ford 1928-1932. * ''Phaethon'' (patrol boat), a patrol boat of the Navy of Cyprus * Double Phaeton, a

Gräf & Stift Gräf & Stift was an Austrian manufacturer of automobiles, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, from 1902 until 2001, latterly as a subsidiary of MAN. It was founded in 1902 by the brothers Franz, Heinrich and Karl Gräf, and the investor, Wilhelm S ...

luxury automobile c. 1910. * HMS ''Phaeton'' (1782), a frigate of Britain's Royal Navy. {{disambiguation