CLST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Scheria, Symplegades, Aegeus
29 Mar 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Pindar"s fourth pythian ode (early 5th c. ) To avoid being sacrificed, helle and phryxis fly on a golden ram from iolcus to colchis: helle falls off into the hellespont, phryxis received by king ae tes, sacrifices ram to zeus, gives its fleece (the. Jason"s uncle pelias usurps the throne of iolcus from jason"s father: jason sent off and educated by the centaur chiron. Jason travels back to iolcus, helping a disguised hera along the way. Pelias fails to sacrifice to hera so hera favours jason over pelias. Pelias promises to surrender the throne to jason once he obtains the golden fleece. Athena tells the hero argus how to build the argo: sometimes considered to be the first ship. Many different lists: heraces, meleager and boar hunters, and father of trojan war heroes (especially. Castor and pollux/polydeuces, zetes and cala s, argus. Women on lemnos unappealing to their husbands, murder them: cf.
