Phaeton, Phaethon, Foeton, or Foethon may refer to:

Greek mythology

  • Phaethon, son of Helios, personification of the Sun
  • Phaethon of Syria, guardian of the temples of Aphrodite
  • Phaethon, one of the horses of Eos

Astronomy

  • 3200 Phaethon, a small asteroid or comet responsible for the Geminids meteor shower
  • Phaeton (hypothetical planet), possibly destroyed to form the asteroid belt
  • Phaethontis quadrangle, a region on Mars
  • Foethon, an archaic Greek name for the planet Jupiter

Art

  • Phaëton (Lully), a tragédie lyrique by Jean Baptiste Lully
  • Phaéton (Saint-Saëns), a 1873 composition by Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Phaethon (composition), a 1986 composition by Christopher Rouse
  • The Fall of Phaeton (Rubens), a painting by Peter Paul Rubens
  • Phaethon (play), a lost play by Euripides

Vehicles

  • Phaeton body, a style of open carriage or automobile
  • Phaeton (carriage), a horse-drawn sporty open carriage
  • Volkswagen Phaeton, a full-size luxury automobile built by Volkswagen until 2016
  • Phaethon (patrol boat), a patrol boat of the Navy of Cyprus
  • HMS Phaeton (1782), a frigate of Britain's Royal Navy

Other uses

  • Gary Phaeton (born 1985), French basketball player
  • Phaethon, first king of the Bronze Age Molossians
  • Dark photon, also called phaeton, a hypothetical dark matter particle
  • Phaethon, genus name of the three tropicbird species
  • Phaeton, Haiti, an old factory town
  • Phaethon (roller coaster), a steel inverted roller coaster at Gyeongju World in South Korea
  • Phaéton (trotter horse), an Anglo-Norman trotting horse
  • Phaethon, main protagonists of Zenless Zone Zero