Phaeton

Of the characters in Greek mythology called Phaethon, the best known was the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the solar deity Apollo or Helios. Alternative, less common genealogies make him a son of Clymenus by Merope,[3] of Helios and Rhode (thus a full brother of the Heliadae) or of Helios and Prote.
In the prevailing account, Phaethon, challenged by his playmates, sought assurance from his mother that his father was the sun god. She gave him the requested assurance and told him to turn to his father for confirmation. He asked his father for some proof that would demonstrate his relationship with the sun. When the god promised to grant him whatever he wanted, he insisted on being allowed to drive the sun chariot for a day. Placed in charge of the chariot, he was unable to control the horses. The earth was in danger of being burnt up and, to prevent this disaster, Zeus killed him with a thunderbolt.
== Tossup Questions ==
# One figure of this name was a son of Eos and Cephalus who was stolen by Aphrodite to become a shrine guardian, while the more famous figure of this name had magic oil placed on his forehead by Apollo. His sisters include Aetheria and Dioxippe, and this figure's father was once involved in a dispute with Poseidon over the Isthmus of Corinth, which was settled by Briareus. His sisters figures turned into poplar trees that cried amber after his death, and this figure's step-father was the king Merops. After learning about his parentage from his mother Clymene, his father swore an oath on the river Styx, leading to Africa being turned into a desert. Killed by a thunderbolt and falling into Eriadnos, for 10 points, name this figure who asked to drive his father Helios' sun-chariot, but couldn't control it.
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