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Athamas, the ruler of Boetia, was forced by Hera to marry Nephele, a phantom which had been created by Zeus to fool a human suitor of Hera. Although Nephele was neither god nor human, she was just as beautiful as Hera and able to be a normal wife to Athamas, and she bore him a son and a daughter, Phrixus and Helle. Because of her supernatural origin, Nephele resented being married to a mortal and treated Athamas with disdain.
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Simpson, P. (2012). The Argonaut’s Adventure. In: Guidebook to the Constellations. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6941-5_10
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