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Helle

The story of Helle and her brother, Phrixus, is the basis for one of the most heroic epics in Greek history, the Quest of the Golden Fleece.

Helle and Phrixus were the children of the king of Orkhomenos (Orchomenos), Athamas, and his nymph-wife, Nephele (Cloud); Athamas rejected Nephele for the mortal woman, Ino, who then plotted to have Phrixus offered as a sacrifice.

Nephele and the god, Hermes, devised the escape of Helle and Phrixus on a magical ram with a Golden Fleece; the youths flew away from Orkhomenos on the ram but Helle fell from its back and drowned in the sea; the Hellespont (Helle’s Sea) was named after her.

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