[218] § 160. [219] § 173. [220] Theocritus. Idyl XIII (Lang's translation). [221] Theocritus, Idyl X, 41, and the Scholia; Virgil, Bucol. 5; 8; 10; and Comments. [222] See the story of Daphne. [223] Theocritus, Idyl X (Lang's translation). [224] Thyrsis. [225] § 119. [226] § 83. [227] § 15. [228] Milton. [229] See § 220. According to Sophocles, Philoctetes' father P[oe]as applied the torch. [230] See the spirited poems, Deïaneira and Herakles, in the classical, but too little read, Epic of Hades, by Lewis Morris. [231] Schiller's Ideal and Life. Translated by S. G. Bulfinch, brother of Thomas Bulfinch. [232] From Fragment of Chorus of a "Dejaneira." [Illustration: FIG. 130. THE BUILDING OF THE ARGO] CHAPTER XV THE FAMILY OF ÆOLUS =163. Descendants of Deucalion.= Athamas, brother of Sisyphus, was descended from Æolus, whose father, Hellen, was the son of Deucalion of Thessaly. Athamas had by his wife Nephele two children, Phrixus and Helle. After a time, growing indifferent to his wife, Athamas put her away and took Ino, the daughter of Cadmus. The unfortunate sequel of this second marriage we have already seen.[233] Nephele, apprehending danger to her children from the influence of their stepmother, took measures to put them out of her reach. Mercury gave her a ram with a golden fleece, on which she set the two children. Vaulting into the air, the animal took his course to the east; but when he was crossing the strait that divides Europe and Asia, the girl Helle fell from his back into the sea, which from her was afterward called the Hellespont--now the Dardanelles. The ram safely landed the boy Phrixus in Colchis, where he was hospitably received by Æetes, the king of that country. Phrixus sacrificed the ram to Jupiter, but the fleece he gave to Æetes, who placed it in a consecrated grove under the care of a sleepless dragon.[234]