The Quest of the

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The Quest of the Golden Fleece
Chapter 7
Mattew M. Amanda E.
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The main Characters

• Athamas A Greek King.
• Nephele Wife of Athamas.
• Princess Ino New wife of Athmas
• Phrixus Athamas first son
• Hermes Zeuss son and messenger
• Helle Helle, the girl, fell in and drowned. The
  strait, called the Sea of Helle and the
  Hellespont, was named after her.
• Colchians The Colchians were fierce people
• Eetes The king of the Colchians

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• Apollo the Sun god, brings life-giving heat and
  light to Earth.
• Argonauts were a company of 50 heroes, who
  sailed on the ship, called Argo
• Harpies Frightful flying creatures
• Lemnos is an island in the northern Aegean Sea
• Hylas armor bearer

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Golden Fleece was told by tree poets Apollonius,
Euridipides, and Pinder.
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The end!

• Greek king named Athamas had a wife named
  Nephele.
• Grew tired of her married another, Princess
  Ino.
• She had a son

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The Golden Fleece

• Phrixus (Athamas first son)
• Step-mother wanted her son to be prince.
• made s plot to kill him (bribed the messenger to
  lie to Athamas about the harvest.)
• Only way to save the people was to kill the young
  prince
• People forced king to kill his son
• His mother prayed to the gods to save her
  son.(hermes answered.)
• Saved by a ram with gold fleece.

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The rescue

• Helle was also saved by ram.
• Helle fell into the sea and drowned
• Sea named after Helle Hellespont
• The boy, Phrixus, came safely into the country
  of Colchians

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The Colchians

• They were fierce people
• Yet they didnt harm the boy
• the king Æetes let him marry one of his
  daughters
• Phrixus sacrificed the ram to Zeus, and gave the
  Golden Fleece to the king.

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Pelias Jason

• Phrixus uncle, who was by rights a king in
  Greece
• His kingdom taken away by uncle's nephew, whose
  name was Pelias

Jason
Pelias
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the quarrel of cousins

• Jason is Pelias cousin
• Jason wants to be the king but he dose not want
  to fight for the title
• Jason is willing to let Pelias keep the wealth he
  has taken, the flocks, and twenty herds of cattle
  and the fields
• All Pelias has to do is hand over the sovereign
  scepter and the throne
• Pelias agrees if Jason retrieves the golden
  fleece for him

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They Met

• She went to find her nephew prince whom jason had
  helped
• She agreed to meet jason
• Hera shed grace on jason as they went to meet
  each other
• Jason spoke first and asked her to be kind, that
  her loveliness must surely mean that she excelled
  in gentle courtesy
• Decided to give box of ointment to him
• Medea told him how to use his charm, saying that
  it would make any weapon invincible for a day as
  well as the person who uses the weapon.

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On the Return

• Heroes then returned to the ships counseled among
  themselves.
• One of the kings grandsons
• Came and talked to jason
• Said that if jason could persuade Medea to help
  him, jason could conquer all of the trials
• Urged jason to go back and try to win Medeas
  heart

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The journy

• When they left they poured wine from a gold
  goblet so Zeus would help seed them along
• The first arrived at lemons (where a woman had
  overthrown all the men except the king)
• After leaving lemons they lost Hercules when his
  armor barer was drawn into the ocean by water
  nymphs
• Zeus sent harpies after the men because he wanted
  to get revenge on phineuos because he could tell
  the future.
• Argonauts, boreas sons and the north winds sons
  were about to fight the Harpies when iris stoped
  them

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THE GATHERING OF HEROS
JASON
HERCULES

• Jason gathered the best of the best to help him
  retrieve the golden fleece.
• He asked Hercules, Orpheus, Castor, his brother
  Pollux, Achilles, Peleus, and many others.
• They called them selves the Argonauts used a
  ship called Argo.

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The vision

• Pelias was told by oracle he would die at the
  hands of kinsmen, who wore a single sandal.
• Jason came back with one bare foot

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The Amazons

• The next place they came to was a country of
  warrior women, called Amazons.
• The Amazons were the daughters of Harmony and
  Ares.
• The wind sped them past this place and they never
  had to fight the Amazons.

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Marriage

• Hera asked for Aphrodite's help.
• Together they planned that Aphrodite's son,
  Cupid, would make the daughter of the king of
  Colchian fall in love with Jason.
• The daughter of the king, was Medea, who knew how
  to work very powerful magic.
• Aphrodite promised Cupid a ball of shining gold
  and deep blue enamel.
• Cupid agreed and went as quickly as he could to
  the city.

Jason and Medea
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Apsyrtus

• The king sent Medea's brother, Apsyrtus
• There are 2 stories of how Medea tricked
  Apsyrtus.
• One was that she asked him to go to a certain
  spot and Jason killed him.
• Another is that he set sail with the Argo and
  Medea cut him pieces, gave time for the Argonauts
  to escape.
• In both situations, they escaped and headed back
  to Greece.

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Murder

• Jason said that he helped her because the king
  actually wanted to kill her, but Jason convinced
  him of exile.
• Jason offered her gold, but she refused.
• She was determined to kill Jason's bride.
• She did it by placing deadly drugs on a robe,
  which she then placed in a casket.

• She then sent her sons to give it to Jason's
  wife, and then the sons demanded she put it on.
• As she put it on, she fell down dead as her flesh
  melted away. Medea thought about it and then
  killed off her children.
• Jason was furious and tried to kill her, but a
  chariot drawn by dragons came down and saved her.
  
• Jason cursed her, never himself, for what had
  happened

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