Phrixus
Phrixos ( Greek Φρίξος ) is in Greek mythology the son of King Athamas of Boeotia and his first wife Nephele . His sister is Helle .
Athamas' second wife Ino hates Phrixos and Helle. Ino tried to kill the twins by roasting all the grain in the land so that the seeds could not sprout. The farmers, fearing a famine, asked a nearby oracle for help. Ino bribed the men sent to the oracle to claim that the oracle required the sacrifice of Phrixus. Before he could be killed, Phrixus and Helle were rescued by a flying ram named Chrysomeles sent by their natural mother, Nephele. However, Helle fell on the run into the sea, which was then named after her ( Hellespont ).
Phrixus arrives at King Aietes of Colchis and has his daughter Chalkiope as his wife. Thereupon Phrixus sacrifices the ram to Zeus and hangs his fur, the famous golden fleece , in a grove sacred to Ares . Here it is guarded by a dragon that never sleeps. The couple has the sons Argos and Phrontis , who play an important role in the Argonaut saga , as well as Melas and Kytisoros and, according to tradition, a fifth son named Presbon and a daughter named Helle.
literature
- Paul Dräger : Phrixos. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , Sp. 964.
- Karl Keyßner : Phrixos 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XX, 1, Stuttgart 1941, Col. 763-769.
- Gustav Türk : Phrixos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 2458-2467 ( digitized version ).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 1, 9, 1. ( ancient Greek and German ); Apollonios of Rhodes , Argonautika 2, 1155; Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 14.
- ↑ Pausanias 9:34, 8; 9, 37, 1 ( ancient Greek )
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron 22