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Colum's Golden Fleece
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Jason as Diomedes
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Cheiron
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The Argo
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Argo Navis
Argo and the Ark
The Golden Fleece
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Fleece as Pure Fiction
Fleece as Purple
Fleece as Gold Mining
Fleece as the Name Ram
Fleece as Royal Power
Fleece as Book
Fleece as Rain Cloud
Fleece as Covenant
Fleece as Blonde Hair
Fleece as Solar Symbol
Fleece as Hittite Sack
Fleece as UFO
The Myth in Context
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Argonautica and Odyssey
Argonautica and the Heroes
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Jason and Perseus
Jason and Heracles
Jason and Theseus
Argonautica as Catabasis
Argonautica and India
Argonautica and Africa
Argonautica and Bible
Texts
Pre-Greek Influences
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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English Translation of Gilgamesh
Aelian on Gilgamesh
Inanna and Dumuzi
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Ishtar's Descent into Hades
Lucan's De Dea Syria
Isis and Osiris
Teshub and the Dragon
Eshmun
Kresnik, Perun and Jarilo
Amirani
Linear B Texts and Oral Traditions
Greek Sources
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Ancient Fragments
Pindar's Pythian 4
Euripides' Medea
Lycophron's Alexandra
Apollonius' Argonautica
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Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Diodorus Siculus' Library
Apollodorus' Library
Orphic Argonautica
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Orphic Argonautica Summary
Date of the Orphic Epic
Latin Sources
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Latin Fragments
Seneca's Medea
Ovid
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Metamorphoses
Heroides
Tristia
Valerius' Argonautica
Hyginus' Fabulae
Geta's Medea Cento
Justin's Epitome
Lactantius' Narrationes
Dares Phrygius
Medieval and Modern Sources
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First Vatican Mythographer
Second Vatican Mythographer
Dante's Inferno
Boccaccio's Genealogy
Chaucer's Good Women
Gower's Confessio Amantis
Lydgate's Troy Book
Lefèvre's History of Troy
Lefèvre's History of Jason
Pomey's Pantheum
Grillparzer's Medea
Morris' Life and Death of Jason
Scholarship
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Isaac Newton
Antoine Banier
Charles Dupuis
F. A. Paley
E. H. Bunbury
Andrew Lang
F. Max Müller
William Ridgeway
Arthur Drews
J. Rendel Harris
Popular Culture
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Orders of the Golden Fleece
Jason and Alchemy
Wieland's History of the Abderites
Planché's Golden Fleece
The New Argonauts
Mythology on the Half-Shell
Hawthorne's Golden Fleece
Modern Argonauts (Cartoon)
A Fleece of Gold
Orzesko's Argonauts
Jason: A Romance
Images from Medea
Filmography
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Giants of Thessaly (1960)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
The Merry Chronicle (1986)
Jason and the Argonauts (2000)
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THE MYTH
Map of the voyage of the Argonauts from the Parergon of Ortelius (1624). (Wikimedia Commons)
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