Phoebus
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Phoebus is the Latin form of Greek Phoibos (Φοῖβος) "Shining-one", a byname used in classical mythology for either the god Apollo or the sun.
Classical Latin poets also used Phoebus as a byname for the sun-god, whence common references in later European poetry to Phoebus and his "To His Coy Mistress" (winged chariot) as a metaphor for the sun.
In mythological texts the sun-god and Apollo are not otherwise confused or identified. For example, in Ovid's Metamorphoses the hero Phaëton is son of Phoebus the sun-god, not son of Phoebus Apollo.
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