CLST 105 Lecture Notes - Pelias, Hypsipyle, Aeson
20 Nov 2012
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Aeetes; king of colchis, owner of the golden fleece. Aeson son of the wind god (autolycus) Mothers: one of them is the cousin of odysseus. Jason"s father thrown off by pelias so father decides to send jason out to be raised outside; by chiron. Pelias decides to visit the delphi oracle and tells him that he should watch out for a guy who shows up with only one sandal because he will be the cause of his death. Continues to head to iolcus to see the king. Pelias tells jason to go get the golden fleece: golden fleece. Once landed, ram is sacrificed to zeus and phrixus hangs the golden fleece (land in colchis: aeetes (barbarian) Jason goes on the voyage; uses ship argo (first ship ever built) Athena helps by telling how to build this ship. Adventure one the lemnian women and hypsipyle. Lemnian women afflicted with body odour; bad breath because they killed old men on the island.
