Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece

Jason (Greek: Ίασων, Etruscan: Easun) is a hero of Greek mythology who lead the Argonauts in the search of the Golden Fleece. His father was Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus. Jason - The early years. Pelias (Aeson's half-brother) was power-hungry and he wished to gain dominion over all of Thessaly. Pelias was the product of a union between their shared mother Tyro ("high born Tyro") daughter of Salmoneus, and the sea god Poseidon. In a bitter feud, he overthrew Aeson (the rightful king), killi ...

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• Jason - The early years
• Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece
• Jason - The Isle of Lemnos
• Jason - The arrival in Colchis
• Jason - The return
• Jason - Circe
• Jason - Sirens
• Jason - Talos
• Jason - Jason returns
• Jason - Jason on film

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Jason assembled a great group of heroes and a huge ship called the Argo. Together, the heroes were known as the Argonauts. They included the Boreads, Heracles, Peleus, Telamon, Orpheus, Castor and Polydeuces, Atalanta and Euphemus. Jason - The Isle of Lemnos. The isle of Lemnos is situated off the Western coast of Asia Minor (modern day Turkey). The island was inhabited by a race of women, who had killed their husbands. The women had neglected their worship of Aphrodite, and as a punishment the goddess mad ...

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Jason, Jason - The early years, Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason - The Isle of Lemnos, Jason - The arrival in Colchis, Jason - The return, Jason - Circe, Jason - Sirens, Jason - Talos, Jason - Jason returns, Jason - Jason on film

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Jason assembled a great group of heroes and a huge ship called the Argo. Together, the heroes were known as the Argonauts. They included the Boreads, Heracles, Philoctetes, Peleus, Telamon, Orpheus, Castor and Polydeuces, Atalanta and Euphemus. Jason - The Isle of Lemnos. The isle of Lemnos is situated off the Western coast of Asia Minor (modern day Turkey). The island was inhabited by a race of women, who had killed their husbands. The women had neglected their worship of Aphrodite, and as a punishment th ...

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Jason, Jason - The early years, Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason - The Isle of Lemnos, Jason - The arrival in Colchis, Jason - The return, Jason - Circe, Jason - Sirens, Jason - Talos, Jason - Jason returns, Jason - Argonauts in Classical Literature, Jason - Jason on film

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Pelias (Aeson's half-brother) was power-hungry and he wished to gain dominion over all of Thessaly. Pelias was the product of a union between their shared mother Tyro ("high born Tyro") daughter of Salmoneus, and the sea god Poseidon. In a bitter feud, he overthrew Aeson (the rightful king), killing him and hopefully his descendants, who might take revenge on him. Alcimede (wife of Aeson) already had an infant son by Aeson, Jason who she sent to the centaur (half man, half horse) Chiron for education, for fear that Pelias would kill him - sh ...

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Jason, Jason - The early years, Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason - The Isle of Lemnos, Jason - The arrival in Colchis, Jason - The return, Jason - Circe, Jason - Sirens, Jason - Talos, Jason - Jason returns, Jason - Argonauts in Classical Literature, Jason - Jason on film

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Pelias (Aeson's half-brother) was power-hungry and he wished to gain dominion over all of Thessaly. Pelias was the product of a union between their shared mother Tyro ("high born Tyro") daughter of Salmoneus, and the sea god Poseidon. In a bitter feud, he overthrew Aeson (the rightful king), killing him and hopefully his descendants, who might take revenge on him. Alcimede (wife of Aeson) already had an infant son by Aeson, Jason who she sent to the centaur (half man, half horse) Chiron for education, for fear that Pelias would kill him - sh ...

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Jason, Jason - The early years, Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason - The Isle of Lemnos, Jason - The arrival in Colchis, Jason - The return, Jason - Circe, Jason - Sirens, Jason - Talos, Jason - Jason returns, Jason - Jason on film

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Medea, using her sorcery, claimed to Pelias' daughters that she could make their father younger by chopping him up into pieces and boiling the pieces in a cauldron of water and magical herbs. She demonstrated this remarkable feat with a sheep, which leapt out of the cauldron as a lamb. The girls, rather naively, sliced and diced their father and put him in the cauldron. Medea did not add the magical herbs, and Pelias was dead. Pelias' son, Acastus, drove Jason and Medea into exile for the murder, and the couple settled in Corinth. The ...

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Jason, Jason - The early years, Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason - The Isle of Lemnos, Jason - The arrival in Colchis, Jason - The return, Jason - Circe, Jason - Sirens, Jason - Talos, Jason - Jason returns, Jason - Argonauts in Classical Literature, Jason - Jason on film

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Though some of the episodes of Jason's story draw on ancient material, the definitive telling, on which this account relies, is that of Apollonius of Rhodes in his epic poem Argonautica, written in Alexandria in the late 3rd century BC. Another, much later Argonautica by Gaius Valerius Flaccus also survives. The story of Medea's revenge on Jason is told with devastating effect by Euripides in the tragedy of the same name. The mythical geography of the voyage of the Argonauts has been speculatively explicate ...

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Jason, Jason - The early years, Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason - The Isle of Lemnos, Jason - The arrival in Colchis, Jason - The return, Jason - Circe, Jason - Sirens, Jason - Talos, Jason - Jason returns, Jason - Argonauts in Classical Literature, Jason - Jason on film

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On the way back to Thessaly, Medea prophesised to Euphemus, the Argo's helmsman, that one day he would rule Libya. This came true through Battus, a descendant of Euphemus. Jason - Circe. When the Argonauts stopped on Aeaea, Circe purified them for the death of Apsyrtus. Jason - Sirens. Chiron had told Jason that without the aid of Orpheus, the Argonauts would never be able to pass the Sirens. The Sirens lived on three small, rocky islands called Sirenum scopuli and sang ...

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Jason, Jason - The early years, Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason - The Isle of Lemnos, Jason - The arrival in Colchis, Jason - The return, Jason - Circe, Jason - Sirens, Jason - Talos, Jason - Jason returns, Jason - Argonauts in Classical Literature, Jason - Jason on film

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Jason arrived in Colchis to claim the fleece as his own. King Aeetes of Colchis promised to give it to him only if he could perform certain tasks. Presented with the tasks, Jason became discouraged and fell into depression. However, Hera had persuaded Aphrodite to convince her son Eros to strike Aeetes's daughter, Medea, with love for Jason. As a result, Medea aided Jason in his tasks. First, Jason had to plow a field with fire-breathing oxen that he had to yoke himself. Medea provided an ointment that protected him from the oxen's flames. T ...

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Jason, Jason - The early years, Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason - The Isle of Lemnos, Jason - The arrival in Colchis, Jason - The return, Jason - Circe, Jason - Sirens, Jason - Talos, Jason - Jason returns, Jason - Jason on film

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Medea, using her sorcery, claimed to Pelias' daughters that she could make their father younger by chopping him up into pieces and boiling the pieces in a cauldron of water and magical herbs. She demonstrated this remarkable feat with a sheep, which leapt out of the cauldron as a lamb. The girls, rather naively, sliced and diced their father and put him in the cauldron. Medea did not add the magical herbs, and Pelias was dead. Pelias' son, Acastus, drove Jason and Medea into exile for the murder, and the couple settled in Corinth. The ...

See also:

Jason, Jason - The early years, Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason - The Isle of Lemnos, Jason - The arrival in Colchis, Jason - The return, Jason - Circe, Jason - Sirens, Jason - Talos, Jason - Jason returns, Jason - Jason on film

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On the way back to Thessaly, Medea prophesised to Euphemus, the Argo's helmsman, that one day he would rule Libya. This came true through Battus, a descendant of Euphemus. Jason - Circe. When the Argonauts stopped on Aeaea, Circe purified them for the death of Apsyrtus. Jason - Sirens. Chiron had told Jason that without the aid of Orpheus, the Argonauts would never be able to pass the Sirens. The Sirens lived on three small, rocky islands called Sirenum scopuli and sang ...

See also:

Jason, Jason - The early years, Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason - The Isle of Lemnos, Jason - The arrival in Colchis, Jason - The return, Jason - Circe, Jason - Sirens, Jason - Talos, Jason - Jason returns, Jason - Jason on film

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Jason arrived in Colchis to claim the fleece as his own. King Aeetes of Colchis promised to give it to him only if he could perform certain tasks. Presented with the tasks, Jason became discouraged and fell into depression. However, Hera had persuaded Aphrodite to convince her son Eros to strike Aeetes's daughter, Medea, with love for Jason. As a result, Medea aided Jason in his tasks. First, Jason had to plow a field with fire-breathing oxen that he had to yoke himself. Medea provided an ointment that protected him from the oxen's flames. T ...

See also:

Jason, Jason - The early years, Jason - The quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason - The Isle of Lemnos, Jason - The arrival in Colchis, Jason - The return, Jason - Circe, Jason - Sirens, Jason - Talos, Jason - Jason returns, Jason - Argonauts in Classical Literature, Jason - Jason on film

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