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Athamas
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Athamas (ăth`əmăs), in Greek mythology, king of Boeotia. He married Nephele, who bore him Phrixus and Helle, but he later fell in love with Ino Ino , in Greek mythology, daughter of Cadmus. She was the wife of Athamas, to whom she bore Learchus and Melicertes. She plotted to kill her stepchildren, Phrixus and Helle, but their mother, Nephele, saved them with the help of a winged ram (see Golden Fleece).
..... Click the link for more information. , who bore him Learchus and Melicertes. According to one legend, Athamas went mad, killed Learchus and forced Ino, who was fleeing with Melicertes, to leap to her death in the sea.
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Counter-tenor Michael Chance as Athamus, Peter Rose as Cadmus and Somnus, Judith Howarth as Iris, were all good; the chorus sang like angels.
World report: reviews of opera from around the world by Opera Canada
Counter-tenor Michael Chance as Athamus, Peter Rose as Cadmus and Somnus, Judith Howarth as Iris, were all good; the chorus sang like angels.
Royal Opera, Covent Garden (A midsummer marriage; Semele; ... by Elizabeth Forbes / Opera Canada
 
 
 
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