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Phrixus was the son of King Athamas of Boeotia and Nephele, a minor goddess. He had a twin sister named Helle; both of them were hated by their stepmother Ino, who made a scheme to get rid of them. She took all crop seeds in the region and roasted them, so that they wouldn't grow. When the farmers went into despair for not being able to grow ...
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In Greek mythology Phrixus (/ ˈfrɪksəs /; also spelt Phryxus; Greek: Φρίξος, translit. Phrixos means "standing on end, bristling") was the son of Athamas, king of Boeotia, and Nephele (a goddess of clouds). He was the older brother of Helle and the father of Argus, [1] Phrontis, Melas and Cytisorus by Chalciope (Iophassa [2]), daughter ...
Phrixus Brother of Helle. Phrixus was the son of King Athamas of Boeotia, born to his first wife, Nephele, a cloud nymph. Nephele was probably an Oceanid nymph, rather than the cloud nymph crafted by Zeus to confound Ixion. Phrixus would have a sister, Helle, born to Athamas and Nephele.
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[1.1] ATHAMAS & NEPHELE (Hesiod Catalogues Frag 38, Apollodorus 1.80, Hyginus Fabulae 1-3) [1.2] ATHAMAS (Ovid Heroides 18.136, Tryphiodorus 218) [1.3] NEPHELE (Ovid Metamorphoses 11.195)
OFFSPRING
[1.1] ALMOPIA, PAIONIA (by Poseidon) (Stephanus Byzantium s.v. Almopia)
HELLE (Hellê), a daughter of Athainas and Nephele, and sister of Phrixus. (Apollod. i. 9. § 1; Apollon. Rhod. i. 927; Ov. Fast. iv. 909, Met. xi. 195.) When Phrixus was to be sacrificed, Nephele rescued her two children, who rode away through the air upon the ram with the golden fleece, the gift of Hermes, but, between Sigeium and the Chersonesus, ...
HELLE & THE FLIGHT OF THE GOLDEN RAM
Hesiod, Catalogues of Women Fragment 38 (from Erastothenes, Catasterismoi 14. 124) (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : "The Ram (Krios). This it was that transported Phrixos (Phrixus) and Helle. It was immortal and was given them by their mother Nephele, and had a golden fleece, as Hesiod and Pherekydes say." Herodotus, Histories 7. 58. 1 (trans. Godley) (Greek historian C5th B.C.) : "The Khersonese (Chersonese) [in Thrace], with the tomb of Athamas' daughter Helle on its r...
HELLE GODDESS OF THE HELLESPONTOS
Ovid, Metamorphoses 11. 195 (trans. Melville) (Roman epic C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "The side of Helle Nepheleis' (Daughter of Nephele's) narrow strait." Ovid, Fasti 3. 853 ff (trans.Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B.C. to C1st A.D.) : "[The Golden-Ram] carries the two [Phrixos and Helle] across the wide seas. They say the girl's left hand clutched the horn weakly, when she named the water after herself. Her brother almost died with her, as he tried to stop her falling and offered his outstretched...
GREEK
1. Hesiod, Catalogues of Women Fragments - Greek Epic C8th - 7th B.C. 2. Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd A.D. 3. Apollonius Rhodius, The Argonautica - Greek Epic C3rd B.C. 4. Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History - Greek History C1st B.C. 5. Pausanias, Description of Greece - Greek Travelogue C2nd A.D. 6. Philostratus the Elder, Imagines - Greek Rhetoric C3rd A.D. 7. Tryphiodorus, The Taking of Ilias - Greek Epic C5th A.D. 8. Nonnus, Dionysiaca - Greek Epic C5th A.D.
ROMAN
1. Hyginus, Fabulae - Latin Mythography C2nd A.D. 2. Hyginus, Astronomica - Latin Mythography C2nd A.D. 3. Ovid, Metamorphoses - Latin Epic C1st B.C. - C1st A.D. 4. Ovid, Fasti - Latin Poetry C1st B.C. - C1st A.D. 5. Ovid, Heroides - Latin Poetry C1st B.C. - C1st A.D. 6. Propertius, Elegies - Latin Elegy C1st B.C. 7. Seneca, Troades - Latin Tragedy C1st A.D. 8. Valerius Flaccus, The Argonautica - Latin Epic C1st A.D. 9. Statius, Achilleid - Latin Epic C1st A.D.
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Other references not currently quoted here: Stephanus Byzantium s.v. Almopia.
Helle (/ ˈhɛli /; Ancient Greek: Ἕλλη, romanized:Héllē), or Ellie, sometimes also called Athamantis (Ancient Greek: Ἀθαμαντίς, "daughter of Athamas"), was a character in Greek mythology who figured prominently in the story of Jason and the Argonauts. Helle is known for giving her name to the strait of Hellespont ("sea of ...
Other articles where Phrixus is discussed: Argonaut: …Athamas had had two children, Phrixus and Helle, by his first wife, Nephele, the cloud goddess. Ino, his second wife, hated the children of Nephele and persuaded Athamas to sacrifice Phrixus as the only means of alleviating a famine. But before the sacrifice, Nephele appeared to Phrixus, bringing a ram…
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Helle. Myths / Mortals / Helle. Helle was a mortal in Greek mythology, who played an important part in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, along with her twin brother Phrixus. She was the daughter of Athamas, king of Boeotia, and Nephele, a cloud nymph. She was the consort of the god Poseidon, with whom she had two children, Almops and Paeon.
