Phrixus

First appears: The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 21–40

In the Catalogues of Women and Eoiae, Phrixus’s mother Nephele gave him and his siblings an immortal with a golden fleece. In the Great Eoiae, Phineus was blinded for revealing the road to Phrixus.

The Great Eoiae names Argus, Phrontis, Melas and Cytisorus as Phrixus’s children with Iophossa, daughter of Aeetes. Magnes son of Argus was the son of Argus and Perimele, daughter of Admetus.

Relationship record

Life events

• In the Great Eoiae, Phineus was blinded for revealing the road to Phrixus.(The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 21–40)
  • With: Phineus
  • “Hesiod in the Great Eoiae says that Phineus was blinded because he revealed to Phrixus the road;”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 21–40

• parent: Nephele “It was immortal and was given them by their mother Nephele, and had a golden fleece, as Hesiod and Pherecydes say.”

The Great Eoiae

• child: Argus “This is one of the children of Phrixus. These.... ....Hesiod in the Great Eoiae says were born of Iophossa the daughter of Aeetes.”
• child: Phrontis “These.... ....Hesiod in the Great Eoiae says were born of Iophossa the daughter of Aeetes. And he says there were four of them, Argus, Phrontis, Melas, and Cytisorus.”
• child: Melas “These.... ....Hesiod in the Great Eoiae says were born of Iophossa the daughter of Aeetes. And he says there were four of them, Argus, Phrontis, Melas, and Cytisorus.”
• child: Cytisorus “These.... ....Hesiod in the Great Eoiae says were born of Iophossa the daughter of Aeetes. And he says there were four of them, Argus, Phrontis, Melas, and Cytisorus.”
• child: Magnes son of Argus “Magnes was the son of Argus, the son of Phrixus and Perimele, Admetus’ daughter, and lived in the region of Thessaly”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.