CLAS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Golden Fleece, Hylas, Iolcos

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Golden fleece the mission for the trip. Jason is compelled by king pelias to go on a lengthy quest before he can become king. He takes on this voyage with the argonauts: the argonauts are 50 very skilled warriors including: Hylas herakles companion who gets abducted by nymphs causing herakles to drop out. Each member of the argonauts were selected based on the special skill they brought to the voyage: ex. ) Aeetes is the king of colcus that holds the golden fleece: he doesn"t give him the fleece right away he tells jason he must win it. Aeetes has two fire breathing bronze bulls made by. Jason views this as an impossible task: however hera offers help to jason. This is because jason helped a disguised. Hera also does not like hephaestus: athena. She also does not like the snake of ares.