Phaeton

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

In Greek mythology, several figures with astral associations:

• Phaëton, son of Helios
• Phaethon (son of Eos), guardian of the temples of Aphrodite
• Phaethon, personification of the planet now known as Jupiter
• Phaethon, one of the horses of Eos
• Phaethon, a lost play by Euripides

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
• Tiffin Phaeton, class A motorhome produced since 2005

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
• Phaeton, a minor character in The Elfqueen of Shannara by Terry Brooks

In other

• 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 three tropicbird species
• Phaeton, Haiti, a town in the Nord-Est Department of Haiti