Golden Fleece. Ino persuaded her husband, Athamas, that his son Phryxos was the cause of a famine which desolated the land, and he ordered him to be sacrificed to the angry gads. Phryxos made his escape over sea on a "ram which had a golden fleece." When he arrived at Colchis, he sacrificed the ram to Zeus, and gave the fleece to King Aetes, who hung it on a sacred oak. It was afterwards stolen by Jason in his celebrated Argonautic expedition.
