The Argonautica

Athamas

Family: Aeolian · Role: brother of Cretheus · First appears: Book II 9

Book II 9

  • siblings with Cretheus “For Cretheus and Athamas were brothers.”
  • younger kin: Jason “For Cretheus and Athamas were brothers. I am the grandson of Cretheus”

Book III 3

  • parent: Aeolus “For Cretheus and Athamas were both sons of Aeolus”
  • child: Phrixus “Phrixus was the son of Athamas, son of Aeolus.”
  • siblings with Cretheus “For Cretheus and Athamas were both sons of Aeolus;”

Book IV 1

  • child: Phrixus “bearing on its back the Minyan son of Athamas. And close by, all smirched with soot, was the base of the altar, which the Aeolid Phrixus once set up to Zeus”

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