Scene from the story, "The Story of Phaethon."

Phaethon

Scene from the story, "The Story of Phaethon."

"The Fall of Phaethon" — Gayley, 1893

Phaethon

"The Fall of Phaethon" — Gayley, 1893

"Then Phaethon beheld the world on fire, and felt the heat intolerable. The air he breathed was like the air of a furnace, and full of burning ashes, and the smoke was of a pitchy darkness." —Bulfinch, 1897

Phaethon

"Then Phaethon beheld the world on fire, and felt the heat intolerable. The air he breathed was like…