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14-456: Alos may refer to: Alos, Greece , an ancient city in Greece Alos, Ariège , a commune of France Alos, Tarn , a commune of France ALOS (health care) , an initialism used in managed health care, meaning "average length of stay" Advanced Land Observation Satellite , a Japanese satellite Aloş , a Turkish sculptor Topics referred to by

28-467: A devious plot to get rid of the twins, roasting all the town's crop seeds so they would not grow. The local farmers, frightened of famine, asked a nearby oracle for assistance. Ino bribed the men sent to the oracle to lie and tell the others that the oracle required the sacrifice of Phrixus. Athamas reluctantly agreed. But, before Phrixus could be killed, he and Helle were spirited away by a flying golden ram sent by Nephele, their natural mother. Helle fell off

42-613: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Alos, Greece Halos ( Ancient Greek : Ἅλος ), Latinised as Halus , was a town and polis in the region of Achaea Phthiotis in ancient Thessaly , on the west side of the Pagasetic Gulf . It is located 10 km south from present-day Almyros . In Greek mythology Halos and Orchomenus are variously recorded as starting point of Phrixos' and Helle's flight to Colchis . The classical city, sometimes referred to as Old Halos,

56-483: Is located at Chorostasi , located at 39°09′43″N 22°50′31″E  /  39.161875°N 22.842025°E  / 39.161875; 22.842025 while the Hellenistic city, sometimes referred to as New Halos, is located nearby at Neos Platanos , located at 39°08′39″N 22°48′52″E  /  39.144116°N 22.814496°E  / 39.144116; 22.814496 . The Hellenistic city lies very close to

70-518: The goddess Nephele , and his other wives Ino and Themisto . Nephele first bore to him twins, a son Phrixus and a daughter Helle ; and also a second son, Makistos . He subsequently married Ino , daughter of Cadmus , with whom he had two children: Learches and Melicertes . By the daughter of Hypseus , Themisto, he was the father of Sphincius and Orchomenus or Schoeneus and Leucon and also, Erythrius and Ptous . Phrixus and Helle were hated by their stepmother, Ino. Ino hatched

84-584: The places where the Persian king Xerxes stayed in the summer of 480 BCE during his attack on Greece. The site of the classical city, which was destroyed in 346 BCE by Parmenion during the Third Sacred War , has been identified, but not excavated. The city was refounded in 302 BCE by Demetrius Poliorcetes . Several later writers mention the city, including Pliny the Elder and Pomponius Mela . In

98-409: The pursuit of her frenzied husband, threw herself into the sea with her son Melicertes . Both were afterwards worshipped as marine divinities, Ino as Leucothea , Melicertes as Palaemon . In another version Ino killed Melicertes after finding out that Athamas was sleeping with a slave woman named Antiphera . Athamas, with the guilt of his son's murder upon him, was obliged to flee from Boeotia . He

112-614: The ram into the Hellespont (which was named after her) and died, but Phrixus survived all the way to Colchis , where King Aeëtes took him in and treated him kindly, giving Phrixus his daughter Chalciope in marriage. In gratitude, Phrixus gave the king the golden fleece of the ram, which Aeëtes hung in a tree in his kingdom. Later, Ino raised Dionysus , her nephew, son of her sister Semele , causing Hera 's intense jealousy. In vengeance, Hera struck Athamas with insanity. Athamas went mad and slew one of his sons, Learchus ; Ino, to escape

126-444: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Alos . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alos&oldid=1146863651 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

140-530: The sixth-century gazetteer Ethnica , Stephanus erroneously refers to the city as "Alea", confusing it with a town in Arcadia . Athamas Athamas was formerly a Thessalian prince and the son of King Aeolus of Aeolia and Enarete , daughter of Deimachus . He was the brother of Salmoneus , Sisyphus , Cretheus , Perieres , Deioneus , Magnes , Calyce , Canace , Alcyone , Pisidice and Perimede . Athamas sired several children by his first wife,

154-500: The surface and is greatly disturbed, but several houses have been excavated by Dutch archaeologists . Greek colleagues have investigated a part of the city walls. This city was abandoned in the mid-third century, perhaps after an earthquake. A Byzantine fort is the last building phase from Antiquity. The town is mentioned in Homer's Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad . According to Strabo ,

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168-410: The town was situated near the sea, at the extremity of Mount Othrys , above the plain called Crocium , of which the part around Halos was called Athamantium , from Athamas , the reputed founder of Halus. Strabo also says that the river Amphrysus , on the banks of which Apollo is said to have fed the oxen of Admetus , flowed near the walls of Halus. The city is mentioned by Herodotus as one of

182-456: Was afterwards called the Athamanian plain. When Athamas returned to his second wife, Ino, Themisto sought revenge by dressing her children in white clothing and Ino's in black. Ino switched their clothes without Themisto's knowledge, and she killed her own children. According to some accounts, Athamas was succeeded on the throne by Presbon . A part of Kingdom of Athamas, and himself, moved in

196-460: Was ordered by the oracle to settle in a place where he should receive hospitality from wild beasts. This he found at Phthiotis in Thessaly , where he surprised some wolves eating 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 (sons: Schoeneus , Leucon , Ptous and/or others). The spot

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