Settled in that country and named it Athamantia after himself 3 and Pieces of sheep but when they saw him they abandoned their prey and fled. He traversed a great extent of country till he fell in with wolves that were devouring 2 Being banished from Boeotia, Athamas inquired of the god where he should dwell, and on receivingĪn oracle that he should dwell in whatever place he should be entertained by wild beasts,
Phrixus had children by Chalciope, to wit, Argus, Melas, Phrontis, and Cytisorus.īut afterwards Athamas was bereft also of the children of Ino through the wrath of Hera įor he went mad and shot Learchus with an arrow, and Ino cast herself and Melicertes into And Phrixus sacrificed the ram with the golden fleece to Zeus the god ofĮscape, and the fleece he gave to Aeetes, who nailed it to an oak in a grove of Ares. He received Phrixus and gave him one of his daughters,Ĭhalciope. The Colchians, whose king was Aeetes, son of the Sun and of Perseis, and brother of CirceĪnd Pasiphae, whom Minos married. The sea which lies betwixt Sigeum and the Chersonese, Helle slipped into the deep and was drowned, and the sea wasĬalled Hellespont after her. Through the sky by the ram they crossed land and sea. Gave them a ram with a golden fleece, which she had received from Hermes, and borne But Nephele caught him and her daughter up and
Of the land to bring Phrixus to the altar. When Athamas heard that, he was forced by the inhabitants Persuaded the messengers to say it was foretold that the infertility would cease if Yield its annual crops so Athamas sent to Delphi to inquire how he might be delivered from the dearth. But the earth, being sown with parched wheat, did not Nephele and persuaded the women to parch the wheat and having got the wheat they did so Wife, Ino, by whom he had Learchus and Melicertes. Of the sons of Aeolus, Athamas ruled over Boeotia and begat a son Phrixus and a daughter Helle by Nephele.
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