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Helle and Phrixus were the children of king Athamas of Orkhomenos (Orchomenos) and his nymph-wife, Nephele (Cloud).
With the help of their mother Helle and Phrixus fled the evil plotting of their stepmother, Ino, on the flying ram with a Golden Fleece; after Helle fell into the sea and drowned, Phrixus sacrificed the ram and hung the prized Golden Fleece in the Garden of Ares (god of War) at Kolkhis (Colchis) where it remained until Iason (Jason) and the Argonauts retrieved it.
When Phrixus arrived in Kolkhis with such a prize as the Golden Fleece, king Aietes (Aeetes) gave him sanctuary and allowed him to marry his daughter, Khalkiope (Chalciope), “without gifts of wooing”; Phrixus and Khalkiope had four sons: Argus, Kytissoros (Cytissoros), Phrontis, and Melas.
After their father’s death, the four young men attempted to return to Orkhomenos and avenge their father’s mistreatment but the Immortals intervened and the brothers were joined with Iason and the Argonauts; also spelled Phrixos.
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