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Phrixus
(334 words)

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(Φρίξος/Phríxos, Lat. Phrixus). Son of Athamas and Nephele [1], brother of Helle. When Athamas, incited by his second wife Ino (Leucothea), intends to sacrifice P. to Zeus on the basis of an oracle falsified by her, he flees with Helle on a ram with a golden coat sent by Nephele. Helle drowns; P, after his arrival in Aea (Colchis), sacrifices the ram to Zeus Phyxios and gives the fleece to Aeetes who hangs it up in the grove of Ares (as a guarantee of his rule: Diod. Sic. 4,47,6; Val. Fl. 5,224ff.). P. marries Chalciope [2] (or Iophossa: Pherecydes FGrH 3 F 25) and fathers by…

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Dräger, Paul (Trier), “Phrixus”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 29 March 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e924170>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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