Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (6)

• Arrival at Colchis and Aeetes’s Tasks
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (audience with Aeetes; fire-breathing bulls; dragon-teeth warriors)
• Medea’s Aid: The Tasks Completed and the Taking of the Fleece
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (drugs; yoking; sown men; dragon lulled or slain; fleece taken)
• Murder of Apsyrtus: Ambush in the Adriatic (Apollonius)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (adult Apsyrtus pursues; lured to Artemis’s shrine; Jason kills him abroad)
• Murder of Apsyrtus: Child Slain and Dismembered (Apollodorus)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean (young Apsyrtus taken from Colchis; killed and scattered to delay Aeetes)
• Phrixus and Helle: The Golden Ram to Colchis
  Heroes — Aeolid / Golden Fleece origin (pre-Argonautica) · Apollodorean / Apollonian background (ram flight; Hellespont; Aeetes)
• Aries: The Golden Ram of Phrixus (Catasterism)
  Local and lesser — astral aetiology / Argonautic prelude · Catasterismic handbook — Nephele’s ram as Aries

Places appearing with them

• Adriatic
• Argo
• Circe’s land
• City
• Colchis
• Field (plain) of Ares
• Field of Ares
• Hellespont
• Iolcus
• Island shrine of Artemis
• Mouth of the Ister (Danube)
• Path of the sun
• Phasis
• Sea (or coastal road) of the escape
• Shrine of Hecate
• Tenedos
• Thebes

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Theft
• War