Phrixus Greek Son of Athamas and Nephele; brother of Helle.
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Phrixus Greek Son of Athamas and Nephele; brother of Helle. His stepmother, Ino, demanded that Phrixus be sacrificed to the corn goddess to ensure good crops. Phrixus and his sister, Helle, escaped on the back of the winged ram that had a fleece of gold. When Phrixus reached Colchis, he sacrificed the ram to the god Zeus and gave the fleece to Aeetes, king of Colchis. The flight of Phrixus and Helle on the winged ram was important in the myth of the Golden Fleece (see Jason and the Argonauts, under Jason).
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- Nephele Greek Wife of Athamas; mother of Phrixus, Leucon, and Helle.
- Ino Greek Daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia; sister of Agave, Antonoë, and Semele; wife of Athamas.
- Rhadamanthus (Rhadamanthys) Greek Son of Europa and the god Zeus; brother of Minos and Sarpedon.
- Menoetius Greek A second-generation Titan; son of Iapetus and Clymene, who was a daughter of Oceanus; brother of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.
- Oceanus Greek The Titan son of Gaia and Uranus and the brother and husband of the Titan Tethys; father of all the Oceanids and all the rivers and seas of the world.