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Nephele

Νεφέλη

(Νεφέλη).

1. The wife of the Thessalian king Athamas, by whom she became the mother of Phrixus and Helle. (Apollod. 1.9.1; comp. ATHAMAS.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.