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Phaethon
A papyrus transmitting portions of the parados to the Phaethon (P.Berol. inv. 9771, 3rd century BCE)
Written by	Euripides
Chorus	Housemaids of Merops' palace
Characters	Clymene Phaethon Herald Merops Tutor Maidens Servant
Date premiered	c. 420 BCE?
Place premiered	Athens
Original language	Ancient Greek
Genre	Tragedy
Setting	Before the palace Merops, Aethiopia

The Phaethon (Ancient Greek: Φαέθων, pronounced [faːé̞θɔːn]) is a fragmentary Greek tragedy by the Athenian dramatist Euripides.

In addition to its status as a play by one the three most prominent dramatists of Greek tragedy, the Phaethon is notable for the circumstances by which much its surviving text has been preserved.

Editions and translations

• Diggle, J. (1970), Euripides: Phaethon, Cambridge{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) — Critical edition of the Greek with commentary.
• Diggle, J. (1998), Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta selecta, Oxford Classical Texts, Oxford, ISBN 978-0198146858{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) — Critical edition of the Greek.
• Kannicht, R. (2004), Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta, vol. vol. 5, Göttingen, ISBN 3-525-25755-4 {{citation}}: |volume= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) — Critical edition of the Greek.
• Collard, C.; Cropp, M. (2008) (2008), Euripides VIII: Fragments, Oedipus-Chrysippus. Other Fragments, Loeb Classical Library, vol. no. 506, Cambridge, MA, ISBN 978-0674996311 {{citation}}: |volume= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) — Greek text with facing English translation.