Is the Greek Legend of Jason And The Argonauts True?
The story of Jason and the band of Greeks known as the Argonauts is one of the oldest and best-known legends of ancient Greece.
Below King Pelias and the Argonauts prepare for their journey
According to the legend, a Greek prince named Jason was charged with
the task of finding and returning to Greece the golden fleece, the skin
of a golden ram. The ram had been sacrificed and its skin hung in a
grove, guarded by a sleepless dragon.
Jason set off on a vessel called the Argo, the first warship ever
built. After many adventures, Jason and his men reached Colchis, an
ancient land on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, in what is now part
of the Soviet Union. The king there gave Jason a number of tasks to
perform.
One of these was to yoke a pair of fire-snorting bulls to a plow.
After that was done, Jason plowed a field and sowed it with dragon’s
teeth, from which armed men would grow. Then, helped by the sorceress
Medea, Jason managed to carry of the golden fleece and return it to a
sacred grove in Greece.
This story was well known before the Greek poet Homer lived. It has
long been regarded as a mere legend. But recently, a stone bearing
writing from an ancient period was found at Maikop in the Soviet Union,
in what was once Colchis. The stone recounts a version of Jason’s story.
It tells of a journey to the region by a band of Greeks during an
earlier period.
~LUVS Dre Irey
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