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to drive his solar chariot for a single day. The play has been lost, though several fragments of it survive. Another treatment of the myth had been delivered earlier by
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next to him, trying to guide his son and shouting advice and instructions on how to drive the car at him; due to the play's fragmentary nature, it is not clear whether
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