The Quest of the Golden Fleece

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The Quest of the Golden Fleece

• Max, Nate, and Andrew

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The Ram

• A king named Athamas leaves his wife Nephele for
  a second one named Ino
• Ino wants her son to inherit the throne but first
  she has to get Nepheles son, Phrixus, out of the
  way
• A flying golden ram sent by hermes saves Phrixus,
  but his sister Helle, fell off the ram and died.
• Phrixus made it safely to Colchis on the ram and
  there he sacrifices it to Zeus and gives its
  skin, the Golden Fleece, to the king, Aetes.

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Meanwhile

• A man named Pelias took over the throne of a
  Greek king, and his son Jason grows up and wants
  to reclaim the throne
• When he reaches the kingdom, Pelias pretends to
  give in to jasons demands, but tells him he must
  retrieve the golden fleece first.
• Jason takes the challenge and gets a group of
  warriors to go along with him, including
  Hercules, Peleus and Orpheus. Together they were
  called the Argonauts

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Their Journey

• First off they go through the fierce women of
  Lemnos, but surprisingly they were kind and
  Hercules decided to stay with them
• Next they find an Oracle, and after helping him
  drive off harpies eating all of his food, he
  gives them info to help them pass through the
  Symplegades
• After passing through and almost having to fight
  off women warriors known as Amazons, and going by
  the chained Prometheus, they reach Colchis

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The Trials

• The king Aetes gives Jason two trials to complete
  for him to receive the Fleece, but these trials
  are impossible for a mortal
• Cupid makes Aetes daughter, a witch named Madea,
  fall in love with Jason so she helps him pass
  through the two trials, the first being to
  control two bulls, and the second to use the
  bulls to plow a field and sow it with dragons
  teeth
• After completing the trials, Madea warns Jason
  that Aetes will kill him in his sleep so he
  steals the Fleece and heads back to Greece with
  Madea in the night

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The Journey Home

• On the way back, out of love Madea has to kill
  her own brother who was trying to stop Jason
• On the way home, they have to pass through
  Scylla, the dreaded rock, Charybdis, a deadly
  whirlpool, and Talus, a giant bronze man
• When he gets home, his mother and father were
  dead at the hands of Pelias. So Madea tricks
  Pelias daughters into killing him, and she brings
  Jasons father back to life.

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Happily Ever After

• Madea and Jason have two kids, but Jason leaves
  to marry the daughter of the king of Corinth, and
  Madea and the children are banished
• To get revenge, she has her children give Jasons
  wife a robe, which made her burst into flames
  when she put it on, and it kills the king as well
  as he tries to help
• Finally Madea kills her two sons she had with
  Jason and flies away on a magic chariot

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Four Great Adventures
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Phaethon

• The place of the sun always shown darkness and
  night were not known of up there
• A brave mortal traveled up there and wanted to
  know if the sun god was his dad
• His dad is the sun god
• The god said anything you ask will come true, and
  the boy responded I wish to take your place
• The god said I have to let you do it if you wish
  but no mortal can drive the chariot
• Phaethon made his choice and mounted the car and
  it was off
• the car lost control and Phaethon died

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Pegasus and Bellerophon

• There was a mighty young lad named Bellerophon
  and he was from the parents Poseidon and a mortal
  named Eurynome
• More than anything Bellerophon wanted Pegasus, a
  winged horse
• He was advised to sleep in Athena's temple so she
  will speak to him in his dreams
• the goddess woke him up and in front of him was a
  bridle of gold to tame Pegasus
• when he tamed Pegasus he went on quests for the
  Lycian king so he could marry her
• In the end he marries her, but he tries to ride
  Pegasus up to Mount Olympus and dies

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 Otus and Ephialtes

• Two twins who were giants sons of Poseidon
• They were troublemakers and imprisoned Ares
• They were going to stack 2 Mountains on top of
  each other but they were stopped by Poseidon
• They were interested in something else so they
  tried to catch Artemis
• Artemis knew of their evil doing so she led them
  to the island of Naxos and the two saw a
  beautiful milky-white hind, it disappeared so the
  brothers split up
• They both saw the creature at the same time and
  threw their spears at the thing, but the creature
  disappeared and they killed each other because
  they were across from one another

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Daedalus

• Invented the labyrinth
• Both he him and his son were captured by King
  Minos
• He made wings to escape, but unfortunately his
  son died
• He flew to Sicily
• King Cocalus' daughters pour scalding hot water
  on King Minos 

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Questions

• Do you think that the hero Jason is overrated for
  his victory of the golden fleece?
• Would you have taken the same actions the
  Princess (madea) did to get revenge?
• Why did Daedalus and his son get captured by King
  Minos?