CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Phrixus, Harpy, Pelias
25 Aug 2016
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March 25th jason and medea (and the argonauts) Main source of info about jason in the argonautica [gods mocked] by appolonius. Jason is either helped by friends, gods, or medea. The golden fleece, nephele, helle, phrixus to colchis. Nephele marries atamus, had helle (girl) and phrixus (boy), after having kids, she didn"t like being grounded, when back into sky (she was a cloud. ) Ino wanted to get rid of phrixus and helle. She parched the grain of the thebans so when they sowed the grain, it didn"t spring forth suffered famine. Thebans had to send delegation to delphi to see what the problem was. Ino subhorned delegates and bribed them to say what she wanted. When they came back, they said the way to relieve the famine would be to sacrifice phrixus. Athamas was about to do that until nephele snatched them up and places them onto golden fleeced ram given by.
