phrixus pharmaceuticals Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/phrixus-pharmaceuticals Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Phrixus & Helle a Brief Digression http://toursmaps.com/phrixus-helle-a-brief-digression.html http://toursmaps.com/phrixus-helle-a-brief-digression.html#respond Wed, 27 Dec 2017 21:36:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=245596 Phrixus had close ties with Iolcus’ royal family. He and his sister Helle were the children of King Athamas of Boeotia (brother of Salmoneus) and the cloud-goddess Nephele. But, spurning Nephele, Athamas instead married Ino (Cadmus’ daughter, a princess of Thebes) and had two further children, Learches and Melicertes. Jealous of her step-children, Ino plotted to kill them She commanded local women to roast the seed-corn before it was sown to prevent it from producing crops. Inevitably the harvest failed, and Athamas sent messengers to Delphi to discover why. But Ino bribed them, and on their return they announced that

The post Phrixus & Helle a Brief Digression appeared first on ToursMaps.com ®.

]]> http://toursmaps.com/phrixus-helle-a-brief-digression.html/feed 0