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  Argonauts - LoveToKnow 1911
by means of a false oracle, to offer Phrixus as a sacrifice, as the only means of alleviating a famine which she herself had caused by ordering the grain to be secretly roasted before it was sown.
Phrixus, however, reached the other side in safety, and proceeding by land to Aea in Colchis on the farther shore of the Euxine Sea, sacrificed the ram, and hung up its fleece in the grove of Ares, where it was guarded by a sleepless dragon.
Forchhammer saw in it an old nature symbolism; Jason, the god of healing and fruitfulness, brought the fleece - the fertilizing rain-cloud - to the western land that was parched by the heat of the sun.
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 Part I. The Voyage to Colchis. Chapter V. The Argo. The Beginning of Things. Colum, Padraic. 1921. The Golden Fleece ...
And because she knew this she feared that when Athamas died Phrixus and Helle, the children of Nephele, would be brought to rule in Thebes.
Soon Phrixus and Helle would be dead, and then, whatever happened, her own children would reign after Athamas in Thebes.
Phrixus wed one of the daughters of the king, and men say that afterward he went back to Thebes, his own land.
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 CHRYSOMALLUS : Flying ram of the golden fleece, hero Phrixus ; Greek mythology ; pictures ; constellation Aries : ...
In consequence of the intrigues of Phrixus' stepmother, Ino (others state that he offered himself), he was to be sacrificed to Zeus; but his mother Nephele removed him and Helle, and the two then rode away on the ram with the golden fleece, the gift of Hermes, through the air.
Phrixus, however, was carried to Colchis, where, as his mother had bidden, he sacrificed the ram, and placed its gilded fleece in the temple of Mars--the very fleece which, guarded by a dragon, it is said Jason, son of Aeson and Alcimede, came to secure."
However, Nubes intervened, and rescuing Phrixus and Helle his sister, put them on the ram, and bade them flee as far as they could through the Hellespont Helle fell off and paid the debt to nature, and the Hellespont was nemd from her name.
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 Phrixus@Everything2.com
Phrixus and Helle left Orchomenus and flew off to the East, but Helle fell into the sea and drowned.
In return, Phrixus sacrified the ram to Zeus and presented the fleece to the king.
Phrixus spent the remained of his life in Aeetes' palace and died there at an advanced age, whilst his sons went back to Orchomenus where the throne was restored to them.
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  MythNET - The Quest of the Golden Fleece
His first wife, Nephele was afraid of her two children (especially Phrixus, one of the two children) being killed by Ino, the soon-to-be second wife.
It was at this time that Phrixus sacrificed the ram that had saved him to Zeus and he gave the golden fleece to King Æetes, who was the Colchian king.
Phrixus had a cousin by the name of Pelias and he was the one who killed his own father to gain control of a kingdom in Greece.
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 Ino
Ino was a mortal queen in Greek mythology, second wife of Athamus and mother of Learches and Melicertes, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia and stepmother of Phrixus and Helle.
Phrixus and Helle, twin children of Athamus and Nephele, were hated by their stepmother, Ino.
In gratitude, Phrixus gave the king the golden fleece of the ram, which Aeetes hung in a tree in his kingdom.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/in/Ino.html   (387 words)

  
 Phrixus - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Phrixus, in Greek mythology, son of Athamas, king of Thessaly, and brother of Helle.
Golden Fleece (mythology), in Greek mythology, the fleece of the winged ram Chrysomallus.
The ram was sent by the god Hermes to rescue Phrixus and...
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 Athamas 1, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
However, before he was able to satisfy the public demands, his wife Nephele 2 put her son Phrixus 1 along with her daughter Helle on the back of the Ram with the Golden Fleece, which she had received from Hermes, and flying on it they escaped.
But Phrixus 1 came to Colchis (Georgia in the Caucasus), and having sacrificed the Ram, he gave the Golden Fleece to King Aeetes and married his daughter Chalciope 2, who some have called Iophossa.
To avoid being sacrificed, Phrixus 1 fled and was borne through the sky to Colchis by the Ram with the Golden Fleece.
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 Coronea
But while Phrixus was led to the altar, Nephele gave him a ram with a golden fleece offered her by Hermes, on which Phrixus and his sister Helle could fly away.
They flew to Colchis, at the extreme east of the Black Sea, but, along the way, Helle fell in the sea, in a place that was named "Hellespont" in her honor (the strait, today called Dardanelles, between the Ægean Sea and Propontis, today's Sea of Marmara, on the way toward the Black Sea).
Phrixus and the ram made it to the court of Æetes, king of Phasis, where Phrixus offered the ram to Zeus in thanksgiving and gave his golden fleece to king Æetes (this is the Golden Fleece the Argonauts came to conquer under the leadership of Jason).
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 Star Tales – Aries
Ino resented her step-children, Phrixus and Helle, and she arranged a plot to have them killed.
He was about to sacrifice Phrixus to Zeus when Nephele intervened to save her son, sending down from the sky a winged ram with a golden fleece.
Phrixus climbed on the ram’s back and was joined by his sister Helle, who feared for her own life.
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 Aries: The Legend
According to the message they brought back, Phrixus and Helle were the cause of the famine and would have to be sacrificed to the gods before the kingdom would once again have corn.
Although he grieved deeply for the fate of Phrixus and Helle, he did not want to cause his kingdom to starve, so he decided to follow what he believed to be the advice of the wise oracle.
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.
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 Software Bisque
Aries is the ram whose golden fleece was coveted by Jason and the Argonauts during their epic voyage to Colchis.
Phrixus and his sister Helle escaped Zeus by flying away on the ram.
Afterwards Phrixus sacrificed the ram and hung its fleece in the Grove of Ares, where it magically transformed into gold.
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 Golden Fleece — FactMonster.com
Golden Fleece, in Greek mythology, the magic fleece of the winged ram that saved Phrixus and Helle, the children of Nephele and Athamas, from the jealousy of Ino, Athamas' second wife.
Phrixus arrived safely, sacrificed the ram, and hung its fleece in a wood guarded by a dragon.
Phrixus married a daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis and begot Argus and three other sons.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/ent/A0821164.html   (167 words)

  
 Jason and the Golden Fleece: The Tales of Aries and Argo. Chapter 1: Phrixus and Helle and the Golden Ram
Meanwhile, Phrixus and Helle, flying high over the sea between Europe and Asia were mesmerized by their view of the sparking waters far below as they reflected the sun and the fleece of their golden ram.
Phrixus wasn't fast enough to save her and his tears dropped like rain over what would later be called the Hellespont, after the drowned princess.
Phrixus' mother Nephele was the daughter of King Cretheus of Iolcos in Thessaly.
www.business-esolutions.com /starmyths/myths/jason1.htm   (1205 words)

  
 Phrixus
Phrixus, on the other hand, arrived safely at Colchis and was greeted warmly by king Aeetes, who gave to Phrixus his daughter Chalciope.
To repay Aeetes for his kindness, Phrixus sacrificed sacrificed the golden ram, and gave its golden fleece to the king.
With Chalciope, Phrixus had four sons, who later joined with the Argonauts on their quest to gain the golden fleece.
dante.udallas.edu /hutchison/Heroes/Argonauts/phrixus.htm   (232 words)

  
 Phrixus - Definition, explanation
In Greek mythology, Phrixus figured prominently in the story of Jason and the Argonauts.
Phrixus, son of Athamus and Nephele, along with his twin Helle, were hated by their stepmother, Ino.
Helle fell off the ram and died, but Phrixus survived all the way to Colchis, where King Aeetes took him in and treated him kindly, giving Phrixus his daughter, Chalciope, in marriage.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/ph/phrixus.php   (200 words)

  
 Constellation Aries
Phrixus and Helle both climbed onto the ram's back and were carried off through the air.
Phrixus managed to hang on and was carried by Aries to a land near the Black Sea called Colchis, the capital of which was Aea.
Phrixus did and presented the golden fleece to King Aeetes, who was delighted with the gift.
www.coldwater.k12.mi.us /lms/planetarium/myth/aries.html   (445 words)

  
 Greek myths in brief
She is jealous of Phrixus and Helle and plots to kill them, but Nephele intervenes and she ends up killing her own two sons instead.
Phrixus agrees but is saved at the last minute by a golden ram sent by his mother Nephele, who has been given it by Hermes.
Phrixus is put down in Aea, welcomed by its king, and marries his daughter Chalciope.
www.livingmyths.com /Greeksum.htm   (2089 words)

  
 Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 487   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Son of Athamas and NSphe'le, threatened with death as a sacrifice through the malice of his stepmother Ino, escaped with his sister Helle on a ram with golden fleece, sent him by Zeus, Hermes, or Nophele.
Helle was drowned on the way in the sea which bears her name, the Helles­pont ; but Phrixus arrived safely in Col­chis, where he sacrificed the ram to Zeus as the " aider of flight " (Zeus Phyxlds), and presented the golden fleece to king Acetes.
Acetes hung it on an oak in the grove of Ares, and gave Phrixus his daughter Chal-ciope to wife.
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 Ino, Athamas, and Phrixus
When Athamas heard that, he was forced by the inhabitants of the land to bring Phrixus to the altar.
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.
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 AllRefer.com - Golden Fleece (Folklore And Mythology) - Encyclopedia
Golden Fleece, in Greek mythology, the magic fleece of the winged ram that saved Phrixus and Helle, the children of Nephele and Athamas, from the jealousy of Ino, Athamas' second wife.
Phrixus arrived safely, sacrificed the ram, and hung its fleece in a wood guarded by a dragon.
Phrixus married a daughter of King AeEtes of Colchis and begot Argus and three other sons.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/GoldenFl.html   (216 words)

  
 Euripides, Medea (U. of Saskatchewan)
Phrixus and Helle flew eastward on the ram's back, but Helle fell off and drowned in the body of water that bore her name (the Hellespont ["sea of Helle"], the modern Dardanelles).
Phrixus, however, made it to the far eastern shore of the Black Sea, where he landed at Aia, capital of the kingdom of Colchis.
In gratitude to the gods for his escape, Phrixus sacrificed the ram and hung its magic golden fleece on an oak in a grove sacred to Ares, where it was guarded by a magic dragon.
homepage.usask.ca /~jrp638/CourseNotes/MedBckgnd.html   (1007 words)

  
 Argo and the Argonautic expedition
The golden fleece belonged to the ram, which Phrixus used to flee from his father, the king of Orchomenos in Boeotia, and his stepmother, when they were preparing to sacrifice him.
Phrixus reached the palace of king Aetes, who received him with honors and gave him his daughter.
When Phrixus sacrificed the lamp to Zeus, he gave the fleece to Aetes and he hung it up in an oak, in the grove of Ares and put a sleepless dragon to guard it, day and night.
www.sikyon.com /Mykinai/argonautes_eg.html   (480 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Phrixus
Prince who was saved on the point of sacrifice by a magical flying ram.
Phrixus escaped together with his sister Helle on the animal's back.
But Phrixus fetched up in Colchis on the mysterious periphery of the heroic world.
www.mythweb.com /encyc/entries/phrixus.html   (84 words)

  
 Aeetes, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
As for Phrixus 1, even a child understands, that he did not come to Colchis borne by a flying Ram with a Golden Fleece, but instead, they say, he came with a ship, which bore the head of a ram upon its bow.
But others, who also deny the Ram with the Golden Fleece, say that Phrixus 1 was adopted by a king of Scythia and son-in-law of Aeetes, and that on that occasion they sacrificed Phrixus 1's attendant, whose name was Crius (Ram), flaying him and nailing his skin up on the temple.
And then the ghost of Phrixus 1 gave the man who had once allowed him to settle in Colchis yet another advice: to marry his daughter Medea to any suitor and let her leave the kingdom.
homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Aeetes.html   (2183 words)

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