He could not kill him because prominent kings of the Aeolian family were present. Pelias recognized that Jason was his nephew. Among the crowd stood a tall youth in leopard skin with only one sandal.

Pelias was presiding over a sacrifice to Poseidon with several neighboring kings in attendance. The goddess was angry with King Pelias for killing his stepgrandmother Sidero after she had sought refuge in Hera's temple.Īnother oracle warned Pelias to be on his guard against a man with one shoe. While traveling Jason lost his sandal crossing the muddy Anauros river while helping an old woman ( Hera in disguise). When Jason was 20 years old, an oracle ordered him to dress as a Magnesian and head to the Iolcan court. He was raised by the centaur Chiron, the trainer of heroes. She faked a burial and smuggled the baby to Mount Pelion.

Pelias intended to kill the baby at once, but Alcimede summoned her kinswomen to weep over him as if he were stillborn.

Aeson married Alcimede, who bore him a son named Jason. Instead, Pelias kept Aeson prisoner and forced him to renounce his inheritance. Pelias put to death every prominent descendant of Aeolus he could, but spared Aeson because of the pleas of their mother Tyro. Because of this unlawful act, an oracle warned him that a descendant of Aeolus would seek revenge. Mythology The Golden Fleece Pelias, king of Iolcos, stops on the steps of a temple as he recognises young Jason by his missing sandal Roman fresco from Pompeii, 1st century AD.Īfter the death of King Cretheus, the Aeolian Pelias usurped the throne from his half-brother Aeson and became king of Iolcus in Thessaly (near the modern city of Volos). They were sometimes called Minyans, after a prehistoric tribe in the area. Their name comes from their ship, Argo, named after its builder, Argus. The Argonauts ( / ˈ ɑːr ɡ ə n ɔː t/ Ancient Greek: Ἀργοναῦται, Argonaũtai, 'Argo sailors') were a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War (around 1300 BC) accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece.

Gathering of the Argonauts, Attic red-figure krater, 460–450 BC, Louvre (G 341). For other uses, see Argonaut (disambiguation).

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