He had three wives; the goddess Nephele; the daughter of Cadmus, Ino; and Themisto. Ino, who hated the children of Nephele and endeavored to destroy them, caused a famine by her artifices, and when Athamas sent messengers to Delphi to consult the Athamas and Ino drew upon themselves the anger of Hera also, the cause of which is not the same in all accounts.The accounts about Athamas, especially in their details, differ much in the different writers, and it seems that the Thessalian and Orchomenian traditions are here interwoven with one another. Ino bribed the men sent to the oracle to lie and tell the others that the oracle required the sacrifice of Phrixus. With Nephele he had three children, the twins Phrixus and Helle, and Makistos. But, before Phrixus could be killed, he and Helle were spirited away by a flying golden ram sent by Nephele, their natural mother. He … The Second Wife of Athamas The marriage of Athamas and Nephele lasted but a relatively short time, for the eye of Athamas was taken by the beauty of Ino, the daughter of Cadmus. Athamas went mad and slew one of his sons, Learchus; Ino, to escape, threw herself into the sea with her other son, Melicertes. Ino hatched a devious plot to get rid of the twins, roasting all the town's crop seeds so they would not grow. Both were afterward worshipped …
Ino hatched a devious plot to get rid of the twins, roasting all the crop seeds of Boeotia so they would not grow. Phrixus and Helle were hated by their stepmother, Ino. Athamas and Ino incurred the wrath of the goddess Hera because Ino had nursed the god Dionysus (q.v.). As punishment for Ino having received and raised Dionysus, the illegitimate son of Zeus and Ino's sister Semele, Zeus's jealous consort Hera drives Athamas to madness. The local farmers, frightened of famine, asked a nearby oracle for assistance. Athamas reluctantly agreed. Athamas. In Greek mythology, Nephele was a cloud nymph who figured prominently in the story of Phrixus and Helle.
Athamas was a king of the region of Boeotia in Greek mythology, son of Aeolus and Enarete. Ino bribed the men sent to the oracleto lie and tell the others that the oracle required the … In the back-story to the heroic tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece, Phrixus and Helle, twin children of Athamas and Nephele, were hated by their stepmother, Ino. Ino hatched a devious plot to get rid of the twins, roasting all the town's crop seeds so they would not grow.
In Greek mythology Phrixus was the son of Athamas, king of Boeotia, and Nephele. 1 At the command of Hera, Athamas married Nephele, by whom he became the father of Phrixus and Helle. Zeus saw Athamas on a mountain top altar with knife poised, yelped “Holy Styx!” and was just in time to call Hermes, who leapt onto a fired-up winged golden ram to do a nick-of-time frightener: Helle fell o… The first wife of Athamas was the Oceanid cloud nymph Nephele; and by Nephele, Athamas would become father to a son, Phrixus, and a daughter, Helle.
Ino bribed the men sent to the oracle to lie and tell the others that the oracle required the sacrifice of Phrixus. The local farmers, frightened of famine, asked a nearby oracle for assistance. But he was secretly in love with the mortal Ino, the daughter of Cadmus, by whom he begot Learchus and Melicertes.
Athamas tue le fils d'Ino by Gaetano Gandolfi (1801)
Nephele, on discovering that Ino had a greater … The Insane Athamas Killing Learchus, While Ino and Melicertor Jump into the Sea by Wilhelm Janson (Holland, Amsterdam), Antonio Tempesta (Italy, Florence, 1555-1630) at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Misfortunes and ruin now came upon the house of Athamas, for Nephele, who had returned to the gods, demanded that Athamas should be sacrificed as an atonement to her. Athamas. Ino bribed the Delphic Oracle to tell him he must sacrifice his eldest son by Nephele, now a teenager called Phrixus, saying he had raped his auntie.
Maenads were reputed to tear their own children limb from limb in their madness. A son of Aeolus and Enarete, the daughter of Deimachus. Athamas reluctantly agreed.
The local farmers, frightened of famine, asked a nearby oracle for assistance. But, before Phrixus could be killed, he and Helle were spirited away by a flying golden ram sent by Nephele, their natural mother. Phrixus and Helle were hated by their stepmother, Ino. Helle fell off the ram into the Athamas, with the guilt of his son's murder upon him, was obliged to flee from According to some accounts, Athamas was succeeded on the throne by Atamante preso dalle Furie by Arcangelo Migliarini (1801) at Roma, Accademia di San Luca King Athamas is at right with his second wife Ino at left. He was the twin brother of Helle and the father of Argus, Phrontis, Melas and Cytisorus by Chalciope, daughter of Aeetes, king of Colchis. [1.1] ATHAMAS & NEPHELE (Hesiod Catalogues Frag 38, Apollodorus 1.80, Hyginus Fabulae 1-3)[1.2] ATHAMAS (Ovid Heroides 18.136, Tryphiodorus 218) [1.3] NEPHELE (Ovid Metamorphoses 11.195)
According to Pausanias, He was thus a brother of Cretheus, Sisyphus Salmoneus, etc. In a frenzy, Athamas seizes his and Ino's son Learchus and kills him.