Argonauts

Medea

A witch who was the daughter of Jason's enemy. She married Jason, but tried to have his sons killed. When Jason married another woman, she killed her children by him and his new wife. Then she went to Athens where she married Theseus.

Amykos

Amycus, was the son of Poseidon and the Bithynian nymph Melia. He was a boxer and King of the Bebryces, a mythical people in Bithynia. Polydeuces killed him in a boxing match when the Argonauts passed through Bithynia.

Meleager

An Argonaut and the main hero of the Calydonian Boar Hunt. Son of Oeneus and Althaea of Calydon; killed the boar that was ravaging his land, but violated the code of the hunt by giving its skin to Atalanta, whom he wished to seduce; eventually this brought about his death.

Campana relief

Ancient Roman terracotta reliefs made from the middle of the first century BC until the first half of the second century AD. They are named after the Italian collector Giampietro Campana, who first published these reliefs (1842). They were friezes.

Story of the Argonauts and Amykos

Argonauts that travel with Jason: Theseus, orphius, herakles, peleus, dioscori, zetes, calais Ship pulls into shore and the meet Amykos that challenges them to a boxing match. Polydeukes accepts and then ties Amykos to a rock.

Story of Athamas

Athamas was the king of Thebes, son of Aolus He was Married 3 times : 1) Nephele - she bore Helle and Phrixos. 2) Married Ino later - Had children - wanted other children dead. So, she damaged the corn supply, so they would starve to death Therefore, Athamas sent someone to oracle to find out why nothing would grow. But, Ino bribed the man to lie and say that Athamas had to sacrifice Phrixos. As he was getting ready to sacrifice Helle and Phrixos to save his land, Nephele saved both of them by sending a golden ram.

Phrixos and Helle

Athamas' son and daughter. Ino, their stepmother, compromised the local farmers seeds. The farmers went to the oracle for an explanation. Ino bribed these farmers to say the oracle asked them to sacrifice Phrixos and Helle. Before they were killed, they were rescued by a golden ram sent by their actual mother, Nephele. Helle dies when she fell of the ram. Phrixus gave the king the golden fleece of the ram, which Aeetes placed in a consecrated grove, under the care of a sleepless dragon.

Hippomenes

He was in love with Atalanta and they will race to see if they will marry or he will die. Venus gives him apples to win, and he does win; TURNED INTO A LION.

Zetes

He was one of the winged sons of the North Wind. He and his brother outraced the Harpies. they were brothers and Argonauts, they could fly, they chased the harpies away from Phineus

Harpies

In Greek mythology, hideous, filthy winged monsters with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail, legs, and talons of a bird. In "Old Ironsides", the word refers to relentless, greedy, or grasping people

Kreon

Jason abandons Medea when Creon, king of Corinth, offers his daughter Glauce.

After they got the golden fleece

Jason has the golden fleece with the help of Medea, Daughter of Aietes Medea falls in love with Jason. He takes off and King Aietes attempts to get them. They head to Yokos. They stop in Crete, where Talos is keeping guard. Madea devised his death.

Beginning of the Argonauts

Jason was son of Aeson. His uncle Pelias took over the thrown. Jason was brought up by centaur at mt pelion. Returned to home dressed in one shoe. Pelias was told a man in one shoe would kill him by an oracle. So, he sent him on a quest to find the golden fleece. Jason sought Argos, son of Phrixos, to build Argo (the ship) for Jason and companions to get the golden fleece

Phineus

King of Salmydessus and prophet; offended Zeus by being too generous with his prophecies; his torment by the Harpies was ended by Jason and his crew - Zetes and Calais.

Althaia

Meleager's mother that killed him.

Castor

One of the Dioscuri, divine twins. Him and his brother were Argonauts on Jason's quest for the golden fleece. When Castor and Polydeuces returned from Jason's quest, they became involved in a fight between two young men. A terrible battle followed and Castor was killed. Pollux was granted immortality by Zeus, but he persuaded Zeus to allow him to share the gift with Castor. As a result, the two spend alternate days on Olympus (as gods) and in Hades (as deceased mortals).

Boreas

The God of the North Wind. Jason, Piper, and Leo seek Boreas in his palace in The Lost Hero. Jason, Piper, and Leo meet him in his palace when they come to him for help. He has two immortal children who were Argonauts.

Atalanta

This female athlete in Greek myth participated in male activities such as sailing with Jason and the Argonauts. She also participated in the Calydonian boar hunt when she shot the first arrow that pierced the boar. What Greek maiden lost a race because she would stop to pick up apples.

Argo

the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed from Iolcos to Colchis to retrieve the Golden Fleece. She was named after her builder, Argus.

Talos

this bronze giant was the guardian of Crete; he was made by Daedalus. Talos kept the Argo at bay by hurling great boulders at it, when Jason and the argonauts went to crete.

Aietes

- King of Colchis who tells Jason he can have the Golden Fleece if he yoked two fire-breathing bulls and used them the sow dragon's teeth in a field

Peleus

A son of Poseidon by Tyro. Twin brother of Neleus. Unjustly seized the throne of his brother Neleus, the king of Iolcus. He promised Jason the crown if he would go to Colchis to avenge the murder of Phrixus, who had been killed by Aeetes. When Jason returned from Colchis with Medea, she tricked Alcestis, Hippothoe, Pelopea, and Pisidice, the four daughters of Pelias, into murdering their father, and refused to use her magic to restore him to life.

Helios

Father of Medea

Polydeukes

He boxed the son of Poseidon, Amykos, on the island of Bithynia. Amykos killed him. AKA Pollux

Jason

One of the least impressive of the Greek heroes. Jason's most notable feat is his assembly of a cast of heroes to travel on a long fraudulent quest—the recovery of the Golden Fleece. When Jason arrives in Colchis to retrieve the Fleece, the daughter of the king, Medea, falls in love with him. Jason abandons her and marries a princess later for political gain. In revenge, Medea kills Jason's new wife and her own children, whom Medea had by Jason. Though he lives on, he bears the burden of this tragedy, in some ways a fate worse than death

Kreusa

Princess of Cornith who jason divorces Medea for; Killed by Medea when she puts on a sparkling dress that Medea make for her and she bursts into flames along with Creon; Medea precedes to kill both Jason's children. Not Aeneas' wife.

King Oineus

When Artemis was forgotten at a sacrifice by King Oineus, she was angered and sent the Calydonian Boar, a wild boar that ravaged the land, men, and cattle and prevented crops from being sown. Atalanta joined Meleager and many other famous heroes on a hunt for the boar. Many of the men were angry that a woman was joining them, but Meleager, though married, lusted for Atalanta, and so he persuaded them to include her. Several of the men were killed before Atalanta became the first to hit the boar and draw blood. After Meleager finally killed the boar with his spear, he awarded the hide to Atalanta. Meleager's uncles, Plexippus and Toxeus, were angry and tried to take the skin from her. In revenge, Meleager killed his uncles. Wild with grief, Meleager's mother Althaea threw a charmed log on the fire, which consumed Meleager's life as it burned. Then she died when a new boar came out of the woods and killed her.

Calais

Which winged son of Boreus, with a name identical to a French port, chased away the harpies from Phineus.

Euphemus

Who, an Argonaut, could run across the surface of the water without wetting his feet

Melanion

Winner of the race for Atalanta due to Aphrodite's apples He and his brothers were shipwrecked but saved from drowning when they were picked up by the Argonauts.

Glauke

daughter of Creon who was to marry Jason; killed by Medea by poisoned gown and crown. AKA Kreusa

Pelias

he jason's uncle who has the crown to the kingdom, and send him on this seemingly impossible quest to achieve the golden fleece. he does his because he hears a prophesy that a man with one sandal will take his throne, and because jason is technically heir to the throne. Pelias is Jason's power-hungry uncle who kicks Aeson, Jason's father, off the throne of Iolcus.