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The Story Of Jason
Jason
●the son of Aeson , the rightful king of lolcus(伊俄尔科斯王国)
●a late ancient Greek mythological hero from the late 10th century BC.
●famous as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest(寻求) for the Golden Fleece(金羊毛).
Early years
●Pelias (Jason’s uncle) was very power-hungry. He wished to gain dominion over all of Thessaly.
●He overthrew Aeson(the rightful king),killing all the descendants that he could. He spared his half-brother for unknown reason. Alcimede (wife of Aeson )already had an infant son named Jason. She sent Jason to the centaur Chiron to for education, for fear that Pelias would kill him. She claimed that she had been having an affair with him all along. The centaur trained him to be a hero.
●Twenty years later,Jason went back to lolcus, knowing that he was the rightful king and told Pelias. But he said “To take my throne, which you shall, you must go on a quest to find the Golden Fleece”, Jason happily accepted the quest.
the quest(寻找) to get Golden Fleece
●Jason assembled a great group of heroes, which known as Argonaut(阿尔戈英雄) their ship after the Argo(阿尔戈号). They met so many troubles and finally got the destination Colchis.
●The Fleece was owned by the king Aeetes. He promised to give him only if he could perform three certain tasks. At the beginning, Jason was so depressed. But with the aid of Medea(Aeetes’s daughter), he eventually did it.
●three tasks
★ plow a field with fire-breathing oxen and yoke himself. Medea gave him a ointment(药膏) that protect him from the oxen’s flames.
★ sowed the teeth of a dragon into a field. The teeth sprouted(萌芽) into an arm of a warrors. Because he was previously told that how to defeat this foe(敌人). Before they attacked him, he threw a rock into the crowd. Unable to discover where the rock e from, the soldiers attacked and defeated one another.
★ His last task was to e the
sleepless dragon which guarded the Golden Fleece. Jason sprayed (喷洒)
the dragon wit