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| Hero from Iolcus (in northern greece). Son of Aeson (dad) and Polymede(mom). Fully mortal so needed lots of help. |
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| father of Jason, husband of Ploymede |
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| Mother of Jason, wife of Aeson |
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| husband and wife who have 2 kids. Nephele is the goddess of clouds. |
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| Children of Athamas and Nephele. |
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| evil stepmom. (new wife to Athamas). she says that famine will go away if the children are sacraficed. |
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| sent by Nephele and swoops down to save the children. |
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| Marks the place where Helle fell off the golden ram. "the Sea of Helle" |
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| Golden Fleece dedicated to: |
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| Ares. The ram was sacraficed and the fleece is gaurded by a dragon. |
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| King of Colchis. Recives Phrixus kindly. |
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| Jason's uncle. Get into fight with Aeson. Fight because Pelias takes over thrown and banished Aeson. Says that if Jason brings him the golden fleece, he will give up reign. |
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| The Argonauts (aka Minyae) |
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| "sailors of the Argo" 50+ men. Heros from all of Greece. Athena gets them together. |
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| ship built by Jason with help from Athena |
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| Queen of the Lemnian women, the island of Lemnos. Has sex with Jason. |
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| Killed their husbands. Happy when the argonauts get there. the argon. stay there for a year and produce kids with the women |
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| King of Bebryces. Boxes Polydeuces and dies. |
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| aka: Pollux. an Argonaut. Boxes Amycus and wins! good over bad. |
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| whenever he tries to eat, the harpies always come down and poop on his food so he never eats. |
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| winged sons of Boreas who swoop down and chase the haripes away from Phineus |
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| Closing rocks. when anything tries to get through, the rocks smash. The argonauts get help from either Hera, Athena, or Poseiden. They push the rocks aside and they are forever open. |
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| Tasks for Jason set by Aeetes: |
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| Won't give fleece away easy. Says that he has to yoke a fire breathing bull to a plow, sow dragon teeth, and defeat the sown men that come out of them. Then he has to face the dragon gaurding the fleece. |
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| Aeetes daughter. a witch and priestess of Hecate, goddess of the moon and witchcraft. Helps Jason by giving him a drug to be strong and to proctect him from the bulls for one day. She tells jason that if he threw a certain stone at the sown men, they would kill each other but Jason kills them himself. She then drugs the dragon so that Jason can go get the fleece. |
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| Medea's brother. Goes in search of Medea and Jason. Medea kills him and throws him into ocean. |
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