phaeton

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

• Phaëton, in Greek mythology, either the son of Helios, the sun god; or son of Eos, the Dawn Goddess
• 3200 Phaethon, small asteroid or comet responsible for the Geminids meteor shower
• Phaethon, first king of the Bronze Age Molossians who arrived with Pelasgus
• Phaethon, genus name of the Tropicbirds

In transportation

• HMS Phaeton has been the name of several ships of the British Royal Navy
• Phaeton (carriage), a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle, named from a fanciful association with the mythological figure
• Phaeton body, an automobile body style
• 1929 Graham Paige DC Phaeton
• Chrysler Imperial Parade Phaeton, 1952 vehicle made for ceremonial purposes such as ticker-tape parades
• Chrysler Phaeton, 1997 concept car
• Volkswagen Phaeton, luxury sedan produced since 2002

In music

• Phaëton (Lully), a tragédie en musique by Jean-Baptiste Lully
• "Phaëton", the second movement from Six Metamorphoses after Ovid by English composer Benjamin Britten
• Phaéton, a symphonic poem by Camille Saint-Saëns

In popular culture

• Phaethon, an inverted roller coaster at Gyeongju World in South Korea
• Phaeton, fictional villainous leader of the "Neosapiens" in the animated television series Exosquad
• Phaethon of Rhadamanth, fictional protagonist of the SF trilogy The Golden Age
• Phaeton (hypothetical planet), a hypothetical location between Mars and Jupiter, often cited in science fiction
• Phaeton, the name of Earth's first starship, the setting of the television series Virtuality

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