Athamas

In the Greek Mythology, Athamas (in Greek old Ἀθάμας / Athámas ), wire of Éole (the son of Hellen), is king of Béotie then of Thessalie.

One tells in various ways the myth of his family, but the essential characteristics are the following ones: of his first wife, Néphélé (a goddess of the Clouds), it has two children, Phrixos and Hellé. His second wife Ino, girl of Cadmos, conceives a savage hatred of the children of its first bed; they escape dead on a winged ram with the Golden Fleece, which makes them cross the sea until in Colchide.

Dionysos is entrusted to him by Hermes to withdraw it from the jealousy Héra, but this one finds it and strikes madness Ino and Athamas. Taking his son Léarchos for a stag, he pursues it and kills it.

Thereafter it has a third wife, Thémisto.

Sources

(I, 7,3; I, 9,1-2; III, 4,2-3).
(france 4 Evelyn-White).
(VII, 197).
(IV; CCXXXIX; CCXLV; CCLXXIII).
(IV, 416 and suiv.).
(V, 198 and 557; IX, 56,304 and 317).
(VI, 21,11; IX, 34,7-8).

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