Helle

Role: child who escaped with Phrixus · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 34

Life events

• A golden-fleeced ram rescued Phrixus and Helle from Athamas’s sacrifice.(Book 9 · Chapter 34 · 📍 sacred enclosure of Laphystian Zeus)
  • With: Athamas (father of Phrixus) Phrixus Zeus
  • “when Athamas was going to sacrifice Phrixus and Helle, a ram with golden wool was sent them by Zeus, on whose back the children escaped.”

Book 9 · Chapter 34

• with Athamas (father of Phrixus) (Athamas intended to sacrifice Helle.) “when Athamas was going to sacrifice Phrixus and Helle”
• with Zeus (Zeus sent the ram by which Helle escaped.) “a ram with golden wool was sent them by Zeus, on whose back the children escaped”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.