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Nephele
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Sources & Significance
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nephele

Helle’s first wife

Cloud goddess

Helle’s second wife Ino hated Neohele’s children, persuaded Athamas to sacrifice Phrixus as the only means of alleviating a famine

Before sacrifice, Nephele appeared to Phrixus with the ram with a golden fleece

Ixion fell in love with Hera, tried to attack? Rape? Her

Hera told Zeus

Wanted to verify, so he made a woman out of a cloud called Nephele, laid her at Ixion’s side

Ixion has sex with her, thinking it was Hera

Ixion bragged about it

Zeus punished him

The centaurs are the offspring of Nephele and Ixion

Hyginus. Fabulae, 62.

Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library: Epitome, 1.20.

Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

Oceanid

First wife of Athamas

Mother of Phrixus

Athamas banishes her

Second wife Ino (jealous) plots against Nephele and her children

Attempts to sacrifice Phrixus to the gods

Nephele appears with golden ram to carry her kids to safety before Ino could carry out plan

Aken, Dr. A.R.A. van. (1961). Elseviers Mythologische Encyclopedie. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Hyginus. Astronomica ii, 20.

Hyginus. Fabulae, 2.

Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 9.1.

From Jason and the Argonauts story

Ino planned to have seed-corn roasted so it would not sprout, so when the crops failed, messengers were sent to consult oracle at Delphi, Ino persuaded messengers to say the oracle required sacrifice of Phrixus to restore fertility to fields

Athamas forced to comply

Ram carried both children through air

Helle fell into the Hellespont (named after her, one of Nephele’s kids), Phrixus arrived safely at Colchis, married daughter of King Aeetes

Phrixus sacrificed golden ram to Zeus, gave pelt to Aeetes

Aeetes placed it in oak tree, guarded by the Colchian dragon, remained until Jason arrived to claim it

Hyginus. Fabulae, 3.

Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library ii, 9.1 ff.

Cloud nymph, attendants to Artemis

Ovid. Metamorphoses iii, 155.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_R-4-59

art

https://emuseum.huntington.org/objects/1666/ixion-worshipping-hera-disguised-as-a-cloud?ctx=72be6aaa-9dad-473b-83f5-c8e02e56f504&idx=4

art

http://emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/47512/ixions-wheel;jsessionid=DFC67C23E25A29F78FDA3B6BEA96B838

art