 It survives in various forms, among which the details vary.Athamas the Minyan, a founder of Halos in Thessaly but also king of the city of Orchomenus in Boeotia (a region of southeastern Greece), took the goddess Nephele as his first wife.They had two children, the boy Phrixus (whose name means "curly," as in the texture of the ram's fleece) and the girl Helle.