文档介绍：2017-1-31 2 GREEK MYTHOLOGY poplar Where do e from? Amber was the son of Apollo by Clymene . The mother had filled the lad's head with so many stories of his father's glory that the youth was quite proud . Wherever he went he told those stories again and again until everybody was tired of him . One occasion , on which one of his friends asked him to show his skill ing down from sky , he felt quite hard to do it . He came back to his mother and told the unhappy event in tears . Unable to do anything for him , she sent her son east wards to pray to Apollo for help . The sun-god graciously received his son and heard the story with interest . Then he took an oath by the Styx , ready to give help according to the boy's request . Phaeton 5 But it was all to his surprised that the boy's hope was to drive his fiery carriage . He warn his son about the dangers on the way , but failed to stop him from the try . As the god had sworn by the Styx there was no going back on his word . In his desperate effort to avoid disaster , Apollo warned his son to keep to the middle course and stop the horses in time . Phaeton joyfully jumped on the carriage and set off . Very soon he lost his way .H e grew pale at the great height and the vast sky in front and behind . The horses ran wild . Unable to hold them , P