The Golden Fleece..

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Golden Fleece
Jason returns with the Golden Fleece, Apulian
pottery painting, c. 340330 BC.
In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece is the
fleece of the golden-woolled, winged ram,
Chrysomallos, that rescued Phrixus and brought
him to Colchis, where Phrixus then sacrificed it
to Zeus. Phrixus gave the fleece to King Aeëtes
who kept it in a sacred grove, whence Jason and
the Argonauts stole it with the help of Medea,
Aeëtes' daughter. The fleece is a symbol of
authority and kingship.
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Argonauts
The Argonauts were a band of heroes in Greek
mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War
(around 1300 BC) accompanied Jason to Colchis in
his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Their name
comes from their ship, Argo, named after its
builder, Argus.
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Kingdom of Colchis - The country where the
Argonauts landed
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Rioni River (Fasis) - The river through which
they came to the royal city of Aeëtes
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Kutaisi (Kutaia, Aia) - Capital of the Kingdom of
Colchis. The royal city of Aeëtes still exists
today.
This is the modern look of the capital of the
ancient Colchis kingdom.
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The legendary king of Colchis, Aeeti
Aeëtes was the son of Sun god Helios and the
Oceanid Perseis, brother of Circe, Perses and
Pasiphaë, and father of Medea, Chalciope and
Absyrtus. His consort was either Idyia, the
youngest daughter of Oceanus.
Aeëtes,_Bartolomeo_di_Giovanni
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Medea
Medea - is the daughter of King Aeëtes of
Colchis. In the myth of Jason and the Argonauts,
she aids Jason in his search for the Golden
Fleece. Medea is known in most stories as a
sorceress, an accomplished "pharmakeía"
(medicinal magic), and is often depicted as a
high-priestess of the goddess, Hecate. She first
appears in Hesiod's Theogony around 700 BCE, but
is best known from Euripides's tragedy Medea and
Apollonius of Rhodes's epic Argonautica.
Medea by Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys
(painted 1866-68)
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Jason...
Jason was an ancient Greek mythological hero and
leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the
Golden Fleece is featured in Greek literature. He
was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of
Iolcos. He was married to the sorceress Medea,
the granddaughter of the sungod Helios.
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The route of the Argonauts to the city of Phaisa
in Colchis.
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https//timseverin.net/the-jason-voyage/
Tim Severin, having sailed in a leather boat from
Ireland to America to test the legend of St
Brendan, and having linked the seven journeys of
Sindbad the Sailor into a single mammoth trip
from Arabia to China, set out to investigate the
story of Jason. He had a twenty-oar galley built
in the Aegean to the exact specifications of a
Bronze Age boat and, with his crew of new
Argonauts, made the same perilous 1500-mile
journey. The oarsmen were aided by Greek, Turkish
and Soviet volunteers as they passed through each
countrys territorial waters. And they underwent
extraordinary hardships on the way. But they did
prove that, in spite of the dangers and
discomfort, Jason could have made the journey in
an oared galley, which many experts had
considered impossible. The Jason Voyage is the
thrilling story of that journey. It will have an
irresistible appeal to scholars as well as lovers
of adventure, travel and mystery.
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The Jason Voyage (1984)The epic
poem Argonautica, first written down
by Apollonius of Rhodes in Alexandria in the late
3rd century BC, became the basis for Severin's
next expedition. He began his research into
ancient Greek ships and the details of the text
in 1981. Master shipwright Vasilis Delimitros
of Spetses hand built a 54-foot (16.5 m) replica
of a Bronze Age galley based on a scale model of
the Argo. In 1984, with twenty volunteer oarsmen,
Severin rowed and sailed from northern Greece thro
ugh the Dardanelles, crossed the Marmara Sea, and
passed through the Straits of Bosphorus to
the Black Sea, reaching the Phasis delta in
then-Soviet Georgia a voyage of 1,500 miles
(2,400 km). Along the way they identified some of
the landmarks visited by Jason and his Argonauts,
and found a possible explanation for the legend
of the Golden Fleece. Severin recounted the
expedition in The Jason Voyage (1985).
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