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  • Um, who is also known as Phaethusa, daughter of He-lion, her powers.

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • Fortunately, our plucky and fast-thinking narrator, Amelia, who is really Phaethusa daughter of Helios and Neaera, and who can see and pass into the fourth dimension--and see such things that will blow your reading wee mind--well, Amelia is not long for the land of amnesia.

    FUGITIVES OF CHAOS, A Review: WOW! Mirtika 2006

  • Fortunately, our plucky and fast-thinking narrator, Amelia, who is really Phaethusa daughter of Helios and Neaera, and who can see and pass into the fourth dimension--and see such things that will blow your reading wee mind--well, Amelia is not long for the land of amnesia.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Mirtika 2006

  • Quentin said, "And he said your name was Phaethusa?"

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • Quentin said softly, "Phaethusa, daughter of Helion."

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • What if Phaethusa was, I don't know, a murderess or an adulteress or an environmentalist or something?

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • I think my real name is Phaethusa, daughter of Helion.

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • Phaethusa will be gone, and only Amelia will remain.

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • And over the dewy leas Phaethusa, the youngest of the daughters of Helios, tended the sheep, bearing in her hand a silver crook; while Lampetia, herding the kine, wielded a staff of glowing orichalcum [1408] as she followed.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • They saw the two nymphs who herded the kine -- Phaethusa and Lampetia, one with a staff of silver and the other with a staff of gold.

    The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles Padraic Colum 1926

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