Who Stopped Phaethon?
Who Stopped Phaethon? Jupiter stopped Phaeton with a thunderbolt, and he fell into the river Eridanus (Met II. 19-328; OM II. 1-63). The Learned Eagle tells the frightened poet that the Milky Way was formed when Pheton lost control of the horses as they sped across the heavens and burned the earth and the atmosphere,