The Quest of the Golden Fleece

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The Quest of the Golden Fleece

• Medea 431 BC Euripides (Athens)
• Early adventures sea journey (dangers)
• voyage courage quest
• The first hero before the Trojan War

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Jason and the Argonauts

• Jasons birth
• Father King Aeson
• b. Mother Polymele
• Pelias half-brother usurper oracle
• a single sandal

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Jason Education

• Chiron
• Sword play and horsemanship
• Revealed to Jasons true identity when the time
  is right

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Travel to Iolcus

• Hera An old woman
• Jason told his uncle to keep all the cattle and
  the fields except the throne
• Pelias answer quest
• to find the golden fleece

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What is the Golden Fleece

• King Athamas tired of his wife
• Queen Nephele bore two children
• Phrixus and Helle
• Athamas got tired of his wife Princess Ino

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What is the Golden Fleece

• New queen Ino
• determined to kill Phrixus
• false oracle starvation to sacrifice the prince

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A wondrous ram

• Hermes mothers prayer
• a ram

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A wondrous ram

• Helle slipped Hellespont
• The Sea of Helle

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A wondrous ram

• Phrixus Colchis Sacrificed the ram (the Golden
  Fleece) to the king AEetes
• AEetes dedicated the fleece to Ares under the
  care of a dragon

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Jason and The Argonauts

• Argo
• master ship-builder
• the largest ship
• Athenes help

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The Argo/Argonauts
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The Argonauts
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Lemnos a strange island only women
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Hylas

• A water nymph saw him
• Hercules (Heracles)
• sought Hylas

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Harpies

• Phineus a lonely and wretched old man
• a seer
• Gift of prophecy from Apollo
• Offends Zeus

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Zeuss terrible punishment

• Harpies Zeuss hounds
• Loathsome stench
• Phineus the sons of North Wind
• Phineuss advice Clashing Rocks a dove

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The Amazons and a glimpse of Caucasus p.128

• The Amazons
• 1. Who is their father?

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The Amazons and a glimpse of Caucasus

• 2. Which god do they see? p.128

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A consultation P.128

• Whats Heras plan?
• 3. She goes to _____ for help.

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• It burned there like a flame and her soul melted
  with sweet pain, and her face went now white, now
  red.
• 4. What happens to Medea upon seeing Jason?

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King AEetes plan p.129

• King AEetes demand
• A trial of courage
• a. two bulls
• b. to plow a field
• 5. What must be cast into the furrows? What
  would spring up from them? P.129

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Getting the Fleece

• 6. What does Medea try to do at first with her
  casket of herbs for killing? P.130

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Getting the Fleece

• Medeas magic ointment
• 7. whose blood?
• P.130

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Getting the Fleece

• 8. How to use it?
• 9. Invisible for _____ (day)

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Medeas Elopement

• The kings plan of treachery

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Medeas help

• 10. Whats Jasons promise? P.131

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Medea and the dragon

• 11. What does she do to the dragon? p.131

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The Pursuit

• Medeas brother Apsyrtus
• p.132
• 12. What happens to her brother?

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Return to Greece

• Death of Jasons parents
• Jason turns to Medea for help

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Pelias death

• P.132-133
• 13. What does Medea trick Pelias daughters into
  doing?

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Medeas Exile p.133-5

• Corinth 10 years
• two sons

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Came to Corinth after Pelias death p.133-5

• Jason plans to marry daughter of the King of
  Corinth

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• 14. What does Medea give to Jasons bride? What
  happens to her?

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Gone with a chariot
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Jason killed himself

• 15. What does Medea do after the murder?