after he left his first wife and married Ino, a wicked woman.
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King Athamus of northern Greece had two children, Phrixus and Helle.
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As they flew over the strait that divides Asia from Europe, Helle, faint at the vast expanse of water below, fell into the sea and was drowned.
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The two children received all the cruel treatment that a stepmother could devise, at one time the kingdom was ruined by a famine.
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The poor boy was then placed on the altar and was about to be knifed when a ram with golden fleece was sent down by the gods and carried off the two children on its back.
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Ino persuaded her credulous husband into believing that his son, Phrixus, was the actual cause of the disaster, and should be sacrificed to Zeus to end it.
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Thus the sea of Helle, Hellespont, became the ancient name of the strip of water.
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Her brother kept on and arrived in Colchis on the eastern shore of the black sea.
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There he sacrificed the ram to Zeus and gave its golden fleece to king Aeetes, who nailed it on a sacred tree and put a sleepless dragon in charge.
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