1、the Golden Fleeceking athamus of northern GREece had twochildren, phrixus and helle.after he left his first wifeand mar ried ino,a wicked woman,the two childrenreceived all the cruel treatment that a stepmothercould devise ,at one timethe kingdom was ruined bya famine.i
2、no persuaded her credulous husband intobelieving that his son,phrixus,was the actual cause ofthe disaster,and should be sacrificed to zeus toendit.the poor boy was then placed on the altar andwas about tobe knifed when a ram with golden fleece was sent down by thegods a
3、nd carried off thetwo children on its back.as they flew over the strait that divides asia from europe,helle,faint atthe vast expanse of water below ,fell into the sea and was drowned.thus the sea ofhelle,hellespont,became the ancient name of the strip of water.her broth
4、er kept on and arrivedin colchis on the eastern shore of the black sea.there he sacrificed the ram to zeus and gave itsgolden fleece to king aeetes,who nailed it on a sacred tree and put a sleepless dragon in charge . 金色的羊毛 希腊北部国王阿塔玛斯有两个孩子,法瑞克斯和赫勒。当国王离开第一个妻子和一个名叫伊诺的坏女