Post by 1dave on Nov 25, 2024 14:28:39 GMT -5
Phaethon, in Greek mythology, the son of Helios, the sun god, and a woman or nymph variously identified as Clymene, Prote, or Rhode. The most influential extant version of the story, found in Ovid’s Metamorphosis, Books I–II, seems to echo the plot of Euripides’s Phaethon, now partially known from papyrus discoveries. Taunted with illegitimacy, Phaethon appealed to his father, who swore to prove his paternity by giving him whatever he wanted. Phaethon asked to be allowed to drive the chariot of the sun through the heavens for a single day. Helios, bound by his oath, had to let him make the attempt. Phaethon set off but was entirely unable to control the horses of the sun chariot, which came too near to the earth and began to scorch it. To prevent further damage, Zeus hurled a thunderbolt at Phaethon, who fell to the earth at the mouth of the Eridanus, a river later identified as the Po.
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The term ‘geomythology’, coined by Dorothy Vitaliano (1968: 5), ‘indicates every case in which the origin of myths and legends can be shown to contain references to geological phenomena and aspects, in a broad sense including astronomical ones.
This article presents further arguments for interpreting the myth of Phaethon as a
geomyth. This will be done by comparing in detail the descriptions in the texts of
the myth with an example of a scientifically analysed meteorite impact. Our candidate
is the site of Chiemgau in south-east Germany, one of the biggest known Holocene
meteorite impacts, where an extraordinary variety of phenomena can be studied by
bringing geology, mineralogy, geophysics, archaeology and astronomy to bear (Ernstson et al.
2010).
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geomyth. This will be done by comparing in detail the descriptions in the texts of
the myth with an example of a scientifically analysed meteorite impact. Our candidate
is the site of Chiemgau in south-east Germany, one of the biggest known Holocene
meteorite impacts, where an extraordinary variety of phenomena can be studied by
bringing geology, mineralogy, geophysics, archaeology and astronomy to bear (Ernstson et al.
2010).
The Chiem
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