Athamas remarried to a mortal woman named Ino who hated her step-children and devised a plan to have Phrixus sacrificed by the order of an oracle so she could secure her own son’s right to the ...

After Athamas abandoned Nephele for Ino, the jealous new queen devised a plot to kill the children. Nephele intervened and sent a magical golden-fleeced ram to rescue them.

According to Greek mythology, Aries is associated with the golden ram that carried Phrixus and Helle, children of the Boeotian king Athamas, away from their evil stepmother Ino.

Most characters were portrayed to some degree as clowns, Athamas most of all. Jupiter (William Burden, a robust tenor fond of sobbing articulations) acted like Peter Frampton meeting a groupie.

Semele’s father and their small-minded community are pushing her into a marriage with the prince Athamas, for which she has little appetite, rather enjoying instead her little fling with the ...

PATRICK MARMION: By Jove, this is a rum view of Handel's beautiful but hybrid piece - definitely profane rather than sacred, it has the strong choral presence of an oratorio.

Cadmus prepares for the marriage of his daughter Semele to Athamas but she has been inventing any possible obstacle to the arrangement, as she is in love with the god Jupiter. Semele’s sister ...