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ATHAMAS , in See also:Greek See also:mythology, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the Minyae in Boeotian See also:Orchomenus, son of See also:Aeolus, king of 'See also:Thessaly, or of Minyas. His first wife was Nephele, the See also:cloud-goddess, by whom he had two See also:children, Phrixus and Helle (see See also:ARGONAUTS). Athamas and his second wife Ino were said to have incurred the wrath of See also:Hera, because Ina had brought up See also:Dionysus, the son of her See also:sister See also:Semele, as a girl, to See also:save his See also:life. Athamas went mad, and slew one of his sons, Learchus; Inc), to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape the pursuit of her frenzied See also:husband, threw herself into the See also:sea with her other son See also:Melicertes. Both were afterwards worshipped as marine divinities, Ino as Leucothea, Melicertes as See also:Palaemon (Odyssey V. 333). Athamas, with the See also:guilt of his son's See also:murder upon him, was obliged to flee from See also:Boeotia. He was ordered by the See also:oracle to See also:settle in a See also:place where he should receive hospitality from See also:wild beasts. This he found at Phthiotis in Thessaly, where he surprised some wolves eating See also:sheep; on his approach they fled, leaving him the bones. Athamas, regarding this as the fulfilment of the oracle, settled there and married a third wife, Themisto. The spot was afterwards called the Athamanian See also:plain (See also:Apollodorus i. g; See also:Hyginus, Fab. 1-5; See also:Ovid, Metam. iv.
416, See also:Fasti, vi. 485; See also:Valerius See also:Flaccus i. 277).
According to a See also:local See also:legend, Athamas was king of Halos in Phthiotis from the first (Schol. on Apoll. Rhoditis ii. 513). After his See also:attempt on the life of Phrixus, which was supposed to have succeeded, the Phthiots were ordered to See also:sacrifice him to See also:Zeus Laphystius, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to appease the anger of the gods. As he was on the point of being put to See also:death, Cytissorus, a son of Phrixus, suddenly arrived from Aea with the See also:news that Phrixus was still alive. Athamas's life was thus saved, but the wrath of the gods was unappeased, and pursued the See also:family. It was ordained that the ei'dest See also:born of the See also:race should not enter the See also:council-chamber; if he did so, he was liable to be seized and sacrificed if detected (See also:Herodotus vii. 197). The legend of Athamas is probably founded on a very old See also:custom amongst the Minyae—the sacrifice of the first-born of the race of Athamas to Zeus Laphystius.
The See also:story formed the subject of lost tragedies by See also:Aeschylus, See also:Sophocles, See also:Euripides and other Greek and Latin dramatists.
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