Colchis

Place · slug: colchis

Also: Phasis shore

Stories (9)

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)
Building of the Argo and Gathering of the Argonauts
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian / Apollodorean (Athena’s design; Argus the builder; catalogue of heroes)
Phineus and the Harpies; the Boreads; Advice for the Symplegades
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (blind seer; Harpies driven off; guidance for the Clashing Rocks)
The Symplegades (Clashing Rocks)
Heroes — Jason / Argonauts · Apollonian (dove test; Athena’s push; rocks fixed thereafter)
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)

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Colchis

Stories (9)

Characters in shared stories