The stories featured in Greek out are original adaptations of classic Greek myths. This episode contains teenage recklessness

Children not listening to their parents, serious sunburns and making promises you have to keep even though it's a bad idea

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Imagine that your mom or dad had the coolest job in the world. The kind of job where everybody knew them and everybody saw them practically every day.

But imagine that you never got to see them. They're your parent, they're super famous and you've never even met them.

That's how things started out for Faith in. You see Faith in was the child of the son god Helios and a mortal woman named Climeni.

He lived with his mother because his dad had a really difficult and important job. Helios had to get up every morning and drive the sun chariot from one side of the earth to the other during the daytime.

Yep, his dad was basically responsible for daylight. In fact, his name Faithen actually means shining.

Helios and Apollo are often confused for each other. Helios was the son of Titans Hyperion and Thia and the god of the son who drove the chariot across the sky every day.

Apollo was god of light and the son of Zeus and Lado and brother of Artemis. But even the ancient Greeks lumped them together calling Apollo Apollo Helios.

For the most part Faithen was a normal Peloponnesian kid. He liked sports a lot, was okay in school, whereas Kighten pulled down on the back like all the cool kids.

But every once in a while he would start to feel awkward about not having a normal dad. Career day was the worst.

Climeni told her son not to go bragging about his dad being a god, especially the son god, because it would only lead to trouble, but you know how it is.

If a genia costus was always going on about how her dad was an important senator and Leon Aresinus had a father who was a soldier who got to hold the shield in the front of the failings.

The failings was a military formation used by Greek soldiers in battle. It was a close rank, dense grouping of warriors armed with long spears and interlocking shields.

Faithen thought he would burst if he had to hear the other kids bragging any longer, so one day he just slipped out.

My dad is Helios. He drives the son across the sky. Can you imagine saying that in the lunchroom?

Casually mentioning that your dad lights the world while you're opening your juice pouch? Well, as you might expect, it did not go over well.

No one believed Faithen. Some kids thought he was joking. Others thought he was making it up to seem cool, but nobody, not even his closest friends, thought Faithen's father was really the god of daylight.

When Faithen got home from school that day, his mother saw how upset he was, and she felt bad.

Climeni assured Faithen that he really was the son of Helios, and she sent word to the god, and they both decided that it was time for father and son to meet.

And so the next day, a delighted and hopeful Faithen began his journey to the east, traveling all the way to the palace of his father, who was supposed to begin his everyday course from the east.

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