Raven and her expert guests break down the origin of Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece, what it really meant, how it ...

The seasonal symbolism theory of the German scholar R. Shröder (1899) saw Jason as the “spring hero” who retrieved the Golden ...

Few figures in Greek myth burn as fiercely as Medea. Gifted with sorcery and cursed with betrayal, she helped Jason seize the ...

Argonauts were the Greek heroes, who, under the command of King Jason of Iolkos, sailed to Colchis (modern Georgia) to steal a golden ram's skin or the Golden Fleece. - Sapa-dpa ...

Scientists, who go after everything with a fine-tooth comb, are always taking the fun out of mythology. Now they are currying the Golden Fleece. According to Greek legend, the fleece first belonged ...

HERCULES, MY SHIPMATE—Robert Graves—Creative Age Press ($3). What the Golden Fleece really was—a cloak tossed to earth by Zeus when he was drunk, or a sheepskin book of alchemic ...

Aries is also the golden fleece that Jason of the Argonauts went to get, she adds. Even though Aries is hard to spot in the night sky, Creighton notes it does have a meteor shower around dawn on ...

The book's many special features include a sample of the mythological Golden Fleece, a pop-up version of Pandora's Box and a quill pen and stationery for children's to write their friends "letters ...