Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Jason and the Golden Fleece

Basically Phirxus and Helle are in danger of being killed by Ino, their father, King Athamas's second wife, so they were carried off to safety on the back of a golden ram. Helle fell of and drowned, but her brother, Phrixus, was carried to Colchis, where he married the king's daughter, sacrificed the ram to Zeus, and hung up its fleece in a temple. Years later, Jason, son of King Aeson of Iolcus , showed up in Iolcus not long after his uncle had deposed his father, and that uncle dreamed up a mission to get him out of the way: to sail to Colchis and take the Golden Fleece. He had the Argo built and gathered up a crew of heroes (the Argonauts--Argo sailors) to go on the voyage with him. Among them were Hercules and Nestor, who as an old man also fought in the Trojan War, and the fathers of several other heroes of the Iliad. They had several adventures on the way to Colchis, including a stop on the island of Lemnos, where all the men had been killed and where all the women had become pregnant by the time the Argonauts left. When they reached Colchis, the king set Jason several tasks to perform before he could have the Golden Fleece, and the king's daughter, Medea, a sorceress, who had fallen in love with Jason, helped him complete those tasks. Finally, when the king kept stalling, Jason and Medea seized the Fleece and sailed off with it. They were married on the way back to Greece, and when they reached Iolcos, Medea used magic to restore Jason's father to health and vigor and then tricked the uncle's daughters into killing him in an attempt to use the same magic on him. 



A classic story about revenge is Tom and Jerry because one of em does something bad and the other one does something else to get revenge and that is literally the whole plot so yeh.


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