![]() ![]() When he finds it is a trap, Polyphemus chases Grover all the way to Florida. While searching for the lost god Pan, Grover Underwood is drawn to Polyphemus' Island because of the smell of the Golden Fleece. ![]() Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Sea of Monsters The Fleece was hung on a tree ferociously guarded by flesh-eating sheep. ![]() The satyrs were drawn towards it's powerful healing nature magic thinking it was the god of the wild, Pan. He used it to make his island better for himself and to lure satyrs there so that he could eat them. It was eventually put in storage in the palace basement.Īfter an unknown amount of time in Iolcus, the Golden Fleece was taken and guarded by Polyphemus the Cyclops. There it remained until taken by Jason to give his uncle, Pelias, at Iolcus. He hung the Golden Fleece reserved from the sacrifice on an oak in a grove sacred to Ares, where it was guarded by a dragon. Phrixus then sacrificed the ram to Poseidon, which became the constellation Aries, and settled in the house of King Aeetes of Colchis and lived to a ripe old age. The ram spoke to Phrixus, giving him heart, and took Phrixus safely on to Colchis, on the easternmost shore of the Euxine (Black) Sea. On the ram the children escaped over the sea, but Helle fell off and drowned in the strait, now named after her, the Hellespont. Poseidon carried her away to an island where he made her into an ewe, so that Theophane's other suitors could not distinguish the ram disguised as the god and his consort. The ram had been sired by Poseidon in his primitive ram-form upon a nymph, Theophane, the granddaughter of Helios, the sun Titan. Nephele or her spirit, appeared to the children with a winged ram whose fleece was of gold. Ino was jealous of her stepchildren and plotted their deaths: in some versions, she persuaded Athamas that sacrificing Phrixus was the only way to end the drought. Later he became enamored of and married Ino, the daughter of Cadmus, bringing drought upon his land when Nephele removed herself. Athamas the Minyan, a founder of Halos in Thessaly, but also king of the city of Orchomenus in Boeotia (a region in southeastern Greece), took as his first wife, the cloud nymph, Nephele, by whom he had two children, the boy Phrixus and the girl Helle. Chrysomallus was a fabulous, flying, golden-fleeced ram. ![]()
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