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Chalciopen: for thus almost everyone calls the sister of Medea. Chorus others.

Chalciopen.

Phrixus and Helle, when they were wandering in the forest, struck with madness by Liber Bacchus, it is said that their mother, Nebula Nephele/Cloud, came there and brought a golden ram, the son of Neptune and Theophane. She ordered her children to mount it and travel to Colchis to King Aeetes, the son of the Sun, and there to sacrifice the ram to Mars. It is said that this was done. * When they had climbed on, and the ram had carried them out into the open sea, Helle fell from the ram, from which the sea was named the Hellespont. It carried Phrixus, however, to the Colchians. There, according to his mother’s instructions, he sacrificed the ram and placed its golden fleece in the temple of Mars. Jason, the son of Aeson and Alcimede, is said to have sought this, with a dragon guarding it. Aeetes gladly received Phrixus and gave him his daughter Chalciope original: "Calliopen" as his wife. She later bore children by him. But Aeetes feared that they would cast him from his kingdom, because it had been prophesied to him through omens that he should guard against death from a foreign son of Aeolus. Therefore, he killed Phrixus. But his sons, Argus, Phrontis, Melas, and Cylindrus original: "Cylindrus", boarded a raft to cross to their grandfather Athamas. When Jason was seeking the fleece, he picked them up as castaways from the island of Dia and took them back to their mother Chalciope. Through her kindness, he was commended to her sister Medea.

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Athamas, a king in Thessaly, when he believed his wife Ino had borne two sons, took to wife Themisto, the daughter of a nymph, and by her fathered twin sons. Later, he learned that Ino was on Mount Parnassus, where she had arrived for the purpose of bacchic revelry. He sent men to bring her back. Once she was brought, he hid her. Themisto learned that she had been found, but she did not know who she was. She began to want to kill her children. She took Ino herself—as someone she believed to be a captive privy to the matter—and told her to cover her own children in white garments and Ino’s children in black ones. Ino placed her own in the white clothes and Themisto’s in the dark ones. Then Themisto, deceived, killed her own children. When she learned of this, she killed herself. Athamas, however, while hunting, killed his older son Learchus during a fit of madness. But Ino threw herself into the sea with her younger son, Melicertes, and was made a goddess.