Phrixus

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Phrixus (frĭk`səs): see Golden Fleece Golden Fleece, in Greek mythology, the magic fleece of the winged ram that saved Phrixus and Helle, the children of Nephele and Athamas, from the jealousy of Ino, Athamas' second wife.
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Since that time, Phrixus had married the king's daughter; and the two young princes had been born and brought up at Colchis, and had spent their play-days in the outskirts of the grove, in the center of which the Golden Fleece was hanging upon a tree.

Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

Otto Muller suggests that the introduction of Thetis and of Phrixus (frags.

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