Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (5)

• Prophecy of Pelias and Jason’s Return with One Sandal
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean / Pindaric (oracle of the one-sandaled man; Anaurus crossing; demand for the Golden Fleece)
• Return to Iolcus and the Death of Pelias (Medea’s Rejuvenation Trick)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollodorean (fleece returned; daughters of Pelias deceived; Pelias boiled; exile)
• Jason’s Education by Chiron
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (youth prelude) · Pindaric / Apollodorean brief (Pelion fosterage before the one sandal)
• Aeson and Pelias: Usurpation of Iolcus
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus prelude) · Apollodorean / Pindaric Aeolid (Cretheus; Tyro; Pelias seizes the throne)
• Medea Rejuvenates Aeson (Ovid-Labeled)
  Heroes — Jason / Argonauts (Iolcus return) · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Medea’s true rejuvenation of Aeson — distinct from Pelias’s false boiling (074)

Places appearing with them

• Altars of Hecate and Youth
• Anaurus
• Bronze cauldron
• Cauldron of Medea
• Colchis
• Corinth
• Iolcus
• Messenia
• Mount Pelion
• Thessalian countryside
• Thessaly

Themes

• Abduction
• Binding
• Birth
• Contest
• Exile
• Hospitality
• Marriage
• Petrification
• Prophecy
• Sacrifice
• Succession
• War