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  Chalciope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chalciope was a princess in Greek mythology, daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, sister of Medea and wife of Phrixus.
In gratitude, Phrixus gave the king the golden fleece of the ram, which Aeetes hung in a tree in his kingdom.
In Greek mythology, Chalciope was also the name of the second wife of Aegeas and a daughter of Rhexenor.
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 Part II. The Return to Greece. Chapter II. Medea the Sorceress. Colum, Padraic. 1921. The Golden Fleece and the Heroes ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
She heard the voice of Chalciope lamenting because Æetes had taken a hatred to her sons and might strive to destroy them.
For Chalciope could try to help her sons and could lament for the danger they were in and no one would blame her.
Chalciope spoke of the danger her sons were in.
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 Aeetes, Greek Mythology Link.
This is why Aeetes, believing that the prophecy referred to the children of his daughter Chalciope 2, did not give a thought to his daughter Medea.
Yet Aeetes was not completely wrong; for Argus 3 visited his mother Chalciope 2 and bade her to obtain Medea's help who, having already fallen in love with the stranger that led the ARGONAUTS, decided to betray her own father and help Jason.
Chalciope 2 married Phrixus 1, son of Athamas 1, and had children by him: Argus 3, Melas 2, Phrontis 1, Cytisorus and Presbon.
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 Part II. The Return to Greece. Chapter III. The Winning of the Golden Fleece. Colum, Padraic. 1921. The Golden Fleece ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
There was a prophecy, he declared, that would have him be watchful of the treachery of his own offspring: this prophecy was being fulfilled by the children of Chalciope; he feared, too, that his daughter, Medea, had aided the strangers.
And then she cut off a tress of her hair and she left it in her chamber as a farewell from one who was going afar.
She called to them, and Phrontis, Chalciope’s son, heard the cry and knew the voice.
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 The Internet Classics Archive | The Argonautica by Apollonius
Such were her words; and Aeetes came forth last of all and Eidyia herself came, the queen of Aeetes, on hearing the voice of Chalciope; and straightway all the court was filled with a throng.
And when she was come Chalciope in grief for her sons questioned her; but Medea, distraught by swiftly-changing thoughts, neither heard her words nor was eager to speak in answer to her questions.
But she sat upon a low stool at the foot of her couch, bending down, her cheek leaning on her left hand, and her eyes were wet with tears as she pondered what an evil deed she had taken part in by her counsels.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 357 (v. 3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Between Sigeum and the Chersonesus, Helle fell into the sea which was afterwards called after her the Hellespont; but Phrixus arrived in Colchis, in the kingdom of Aeetes, who gave him his daughter Chalciope in marriage (comp.
By Chalciope Phrixus became the father of Argus, Melas, Phrontis, Cytisorus, and Presbon (Apollod.
Phrixus died in old age in the kingdom of Aeetes, or, according to others, he was killed by Aeetes in consequence of an oracle (Apollon.
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 Apollonius1.outline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Helle fell off (into the Hellespont, named for her) and Phrixus reached Colchis, where he married Aeetes' daughter Chalciope and gave the fleece to Aeetes.
Chalciope and Medea are sisters in the Argonautica.
Negative examples of marriage (Chalciope and Phrixus, Ariadne and Theseus).
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 Greek Mythology and Ancient Greece - Jason (Argonauts)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
She heard the voice of Chalciope lamenting because Aeetes had taken a hatred to her sons and might strive to destroy them.
"Chalciope," she said, "I declare that I am your sister, indeed--aye, and your daughter, too, for did you not care for me when I was an infant?
If he perished the Argonauts should then do what they thought was best--make other trials to gain the Golden Fleece, or turn their ship and sail back to Greece.
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 All words on Orford
Seeing Chalciope's sons there they, too, uttered loud came out of the palace.
He was old and white, but he had great Jason looked upon Apsyrtus too; the son of Aeetes looked like a with a hooked nose and a gleam of copper in his face.
And all the other heroes who have come with them are of the He thought that the sons of Chalciope had returned to Aea kingship from him, or, failing that, plunder the city.
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 Part II. The Return to Greece. Chapter I. King Æetes. Colum, Padraic. 1921. The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who ...
For now Phrontis and Melas had come up, and Chalciope who was spinning by the door saw them and cried out.
Seeing Chalciope’s sons there they, too, uttered loud cries, and made such commotion that Apsyrtus and then King Æetes came out of the palace.
He thought that the sons of Chalciope had returned to Aea bringing these warriors with them so that they might wrest the kingship from him, or, failing that, plunder the city.
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 Ino, Athamas, and Phrixus
But Phrixus came to the Colchians, whose king was Aeetes, son of the Sun and of Perseis, and brother of Circe and Pasiphae, whom Minos married.
And Phrixus sacrificed the ram with the golden fleece to Zeus the god of Escape, and the fleece he gave to Aeetes, who nailed it to an oak in a grove of Ares.
Aeetes, though, was afraid they would expel him from the kingdom, because he had a response from omens that he should beware of death from a foreigner, a son of Aeolus; and so he killed Phrixus.
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 Aries: The Legend
Phrixus, however, managed to survive and was carried to safety on the shores of Colchis, at the eastern end of the Black Sea, where King Aeetes (son of Helius and brother of Circe) received him with kindess and gave him his elder daughter, Chalciope, as a wife.
He made a present of the fleece to Aeetes, who hung it upon an oak tree in a grove sacred to Ares, where it was guarded by a never-sleeping serpent, and would be would be the theme of legends yet to come.
It was from here that Jason and the Argonauts stole it, the four sons of Phrixus and Chalciope (Argus, Melas, Phrontis and Cytisorus) playing a minor role in that saga...but that is another story.
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 Greek Mythology, Eastern Asia Minor and the Caucasus, Armenian Mythology, Georgian Mythology
Aeetes was the brother of Circe and Pasiphae and the father of Chalciope, Media, and a son, Apsyrtus.
Phrixus was welcomed by Aeetes, married his daughter, Chalciope, and fathered several children.
Phrixus' sons by Chalciope, Medea's sons by Jason, and Circe's son by Odysseus are examples.
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 1796   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Nor had he ever so slight a fear.html">fear of his daughters, that this curse was being fulfilled in the children of Chalciope.
And and loudly threatened to keep watch over the ship and its crew, manifold pleading besought his mother to pray Medea's aid; and her soul lest haply either fate should withstand and she should father.html">father's deadly wrath.html">wrath, or, if Medea yielded to her prayers, her her love-pains as she lay upon her couch.
And she rushed in dismay from her anguish, having torn her cheeks on each side; and when Chalciope.
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 Valerius, Argonautica
arrived in Colchis after his escape on the magical Golden Ram, Aeetes gave him Chalciope as a bride, and she bore him four sons (Apollonius identifies them as: Argus, Melas, Phrontis, and Kytissoros; Valerius largely excludes them from his version of the myth).
He was one of the participants in the Calydonian boar-hunt, and would eventually die at Pollux' hands during a quarrel over cattle-raiding.
Helle fell into the eponymous Hellespont en route, but Phrixus reached Colchis, where he sacrificed the ram (its fleece was hung up in a sacred grove and guarded by an unsleeping serpent), and eventually married King Aeetes' daughter Chalciope, by whom he had four sons: Argus, Melas, Phrontis, and Kytissoros.
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 Aegeus
Though they divided the government in four, Aegeus became king.
He took Meta as his wife, then Chalciope, daughter of Rhexenor.
Neither woman bore him an heir, so Aegeus began to fear losing his power.
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 The Argonautica Book III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
268-274) Such were her words; and Aeetes came forth last of all and Eidyia herself came, the queen of Aeetes, on hearing the voice of Chalciope; and straightway all the court was filled with a throng.
Wherefore he was sending them, as they desired, to the Achaean land at the bidding of their father -- a long journey.
740-743) Thus Chalciope went back from the chamber, and made known to her sons the help given by her sister.
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 Chalciope * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
Chalciope * People, Places, and Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
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"People, Places and Things: Chalciope", Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant.
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 The Golden Fleece And The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum eBook by BookRags
And one fountain gushed out clear water, and another gushed out milk; another gushed out wine; and another oil.
On each side of the courtyard were the palace buildings; in one King Aeetes lived with Apsyrtus, his son, and in the other Chalciope and Medea lived with their handmaidens.
Seeing Chalciope’s sons there they, too, uttered loud cries, and made such commotion that Apsyrtus and then King Aeetes came out of the palace.
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 The Argonautica - Book III (By Apollonius Rhodius)
Wherefore he was sending them, as they desired, to the Achaean land at the bidding of their father–a long journey.
Slumbering just now in a short-lived sleep such a ghastly dream did I see–may some god forbid its fulfilment and never mayst thou win for thyself bitter care on thy sons’ account.”
718-723) She spake, and Chalciope thus replied: “Couldst thou not then, for the stranger–who himself craves thy aid – devise some trick or some wise thought to win the contest, for the sake of my sons?
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 The San Antonio College LitWeb Introduction to Euripides' Medea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The children escape on it to Colchis, Helle having fallen into what later is known as the Hellespont on the way there.
Phrixus is well received by Aeëtes the king, who is a son of Helios; brother of Pasiphaë and Circe; and father, by his first wife Asterodea, of a daughter, Chalciope.
By his second wife Idyia Aeëtes has a son named Apsyrtus and a daughter named Medea.
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 Green Kids Books >> Charles Kingsley >> Heroes (Greek Fairy Tales for My Children)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
And the boy came to Jason, and said -
'I am the son of Phrixus, your Cousin; and Chalciope my mother waits for you, to talk about the golden fleece.'
Then Jason went boldly with the boy, and found the two princesses standing; and when Chalciope saw him she wept, and took his hands, and cried--'O cousin of my beloved, go home before you die!'
www.greenkidsbooks.org /charles-kingsley-heroes-or-greek-fairy-tales-for-my-children/page-65.html   (376 words)

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