As the story opens, rebellious Phaethon is chided by most citizens for an inexcusable atrocity he imposed on mankind. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: The Golden Age by John C. Wright] Reference
They are likely dust particles from an asteroid named 3200 Phaethon, which is unusual. From Wordnik.com. [Geminid meteor shower tonight -- best shower of the year] Reference
Phaethon is indeed a figure from Greek myth. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: The Golden Age by John C. Wright] Reference
Phaethon is a member of this Utopian society. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: The Golden Age by John C. Wright] Reference
Instead, it's an asteroid, a chunk of rock roughly 5 kilometres across called Phaethon (pronounced. From Wordnik.com. [New Scientist - Online News] Reference
Once again Phaethon drove the chariot of the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Lucifer's Hammer]
Phaethon flame-enwrapt, and cypress in air upspringing. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
Clymene was the daughter of Oceanus, and mother of Phaethon. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Phaethon flame-enwrapt, and cypress in air upspringing. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
Was there a great burning of the world in the time of Phaethon?. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
And Phaethon heard the words, and his heart was filled with an evil pride. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Helios had another son named Phaethon, whose mother was Clymene, one of the. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
Europrogocontestovision: First chorus from Euripides' Phaethon skip to main. From Wordnik.com. [First chorus from Euripides' Phaethon] Reference
Phaethon, for him to mount; and he mounted, and held the reins in his hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
Also, the debris shed by 3200 Phaethon is not enough to explain the Geminids. From Wordnik.com. [Geminid meteor shower tonight -- best shower of the year] Reference
There is enough surviving Phaethon to tempt reconstructors as well as editors. From Wordnik.com. [Divine sex and melting icecaps] Reference
Phaethon may have collided with one or more asteroids in passing, creating rocky debris. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast – December 11-13, 2009 | Universe Today] Reference
One correction: the source of the Geminids isn't a comet, but an asteroïd: 3200 Phaethon. From Wordnik.com. [Join the World in Looking for Geminids This Weekend with #MeteorWatch | Universe Today] Reference
White-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) occurs as a distinctive morph on Europa Island. From Wordnik.com. [Ile Europa and Bassas da India xeric scrub] Reference
There was one passage (Chapter 9, section 7) where Phaethon reasons that morality is objective. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: The Golden Transcendence by John C. Wright] Reference
The hero, Phaethon, realizes that parts of his memory have been erased, most likely by himself. From Wordnik.com. [My Favorite Type Of Science Fiction: Space Opera] Reference
"And yet down we come, 'like glistening Phaethon, wanting the manage of unruly jades,'" quoted Smith. From Wordnik.com. [Round the World in Seven Days] Reference
"Others say that Zeus hated the impious bronze men, and that Phaethon fell to his death in the Po ...". From Wordnik.com. [bettyalready Diary Entry] Reference
Exactly why 3200 Phaethon has so much material trailing behind it to burn up in our atmosphere is unclear. From Wordnik.com. [Now playing in a sky near you: Winter meteor show] Reference
THE MAGIC MAY RETURN like Phaethon, by some powerful magic that imposed a quiet if not always a peaceful slumber. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic May Return]
I love the discription of The Silent Oecumene, and Phaethon & the soldier's discussion about how they had laws and money. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: The Golden Transcendence by John C. Wright] Reference
That particular plot device was stretching its limits a bit as was one where Phaethon attempted to employ a Trekian Computer!. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: The Golden Transcendence by John C. Wright] Reference
The resultant handsome son - such liaisons were reliably successful in that way - was the Phaethon who gave the play its name. From Wordnik.com. [Divine sex and melting icecaps] Reference
Plausible, but the meteoroid ‘‘path’’ occurs when Phaethon nears the Sun—behaving like a comet, yet developing no tail. From Wordnik.com. [Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast – December 11-13, 2009 | Universe Today] Reference
In the case of the Geminid shower, they're tiny pieces of debris breaking off an asteroid called 3200 Phaethon as it orbits the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Geminid meteor shower expected to be heavenly show] Reference
BRIEF SYNOPSIS: The exiled Phaethon must prevent Xenophon from destroying humanity during the cosmic mind-meld known as Transcendence. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: The Golden Transcendence by John C. Wright] Reference
The tragedy of Phaethon - two versions of which arrived on the TLS table this week - was the Greek way of working through the issues here. From Wordnik.com. [Divine sex and melting icecaps] Reference
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