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Phrontis
Phrontis (/fron-tis/; Ancient Greek: Φροντις) was one of four (or five) sons of Phrixus and Chalciope. He was also a grandson of King Aeëtes of Colchis .
Phrontis and his brothers were raised in Colchis, but after their father died, he and his brothers set out to avenge their father’s ill treatment in the hands of king Athamas of Orchomenus and were stranded on the Island of Ares the War God in the Black Sea until they were rescued from the island by the Jason
he helped the inhabitants of Ionetrea to revolt and to overthrow and kill Talycrates, thus liberating the Ionetreans from his tyrannical oppression. An Ionetrean maiden named Lystra joined Phrontis and Melas on the journey back to Greece, and Phrontis married Lystra in Greece.
Other uses.
- Phrontis was wife of Panthous and mother of Euphorbus and Hyperenor
- Phrontis was the helmsman of Menelaus
- Phrontis was the mother of Alastor in Adel Geras's "Troy".
References.
- Argonauts