Jason and the Argonauts (ΑΡΓΟΝΑΥΤΙΚΗ ΕΚΣΤΡΑΤΕΙΑ) 2/5

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Published Oct 10, 2016

Jason (Greek: Ἰάσων, Iásōn) was a late ancient Greek mythological hero, famous as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus. He was married to the sorceress Medea.

Pelias (Aeson's half-brother) was very 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") the daughter of Salmoneus, and allegedly the sea god Poseidon. In a bitter feud, he overthrew Aeson (the rightful king), killing all the descendants of Aeson that he could. He spared his half-brother for unknown reasons. Alcimede I (wife of Aeson) already had an infant son named Jason whom she saved from being killed by Pelias, by having women cluster around the newborn and cry as if he were still-born. Alcimede sent her son to the centaur Chiron for education, for fear that Pelias would kill him — she claimed that she had been having an affair with him all along. Pelias, still fearful that he would one day be overthrown, consulted an oracle which warned him to beware of a man with one sandal.

Many years later, Pelias was holding games in honor of the sea god and his alleged father, Poseidon, when Jason arrived in Iolcus and lost one of his sandals in the river Anauros ("wintry Anauros"), while helping an old woman (the Goddess Hera in disguise), to cross. She blessed him for she knew, as goddesses do, what Pelias had up his sleeve. When Jason entered Iolcus (modern-day city of Volos), he was announced as a man wearing one sandal. Jason, knowing that he was the rightful king, told Pelias that and Pelias said, "To take my throne, which you shall, you must go on a quest to find the Golden Fleece." Jason happily accepted the quest.

Jason assembled a great group of heroes, known as the Argonauts after their ship, the Argo. The group of heroes included the Boreads (sons of Boreas, the North Wind) who could fly, Heracles, Philoctetes, Peleus, Telamon, Orpheus, Castor and Pollux, Atalanta, and Euphemus.

ΕΛΛΑΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΠΗΛΙΟ ΙΩΛΚΟΣ ΙΑΣΩΝ ΙΑΣΟΝΑΣ ΜΗΔΕΙΑ ΠΕΛΙΑΣ ΧΕΙΡΩΝ ΠΗΛΙΟ ΧΡΥΣΟΜΑΛΛΟ ΔΕΡΑΣ ΑΡΓΩ ΑΡΓΟΝΑΥΤΕΣ ΛΗΜΝΟΣ ΥΨΙΠΥΛΗ ΑΡΓΟΝΑΥΤΙΚΗ ΕΚΣΤΡΑΤΕΙΑ ΚΟΛΧΙΔΑ HELLAS GREECE IOLCUS JASON MEDEA ARGO ARGONAUTS GOLDEN FLEECE PELIAS LEMNOS APHRODITE HYPSIPYLE COLCHIS GEORGIA QUEST MYTHOLOGY

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