CL 28 - Classical Mythology
The House of Aeolus

Jason, Greek hero, grandson of the wind god Aeolus
The Argonauts, Jason's fellow heroes, the crew of the ship Argo

Castor and Pollux (Dioscuri), Telamon and Peleus, Herakles, Theseus, Laertes and Autolycus, Hylas

Aeson of Iolkos, Jason's father
Pelias, Aeson's brother
Hecate/Hekate
Argus
Helios
Chiron, the centaur who reared Jason and taught Asclepius
Hypsipyle
King Cyzikus of the Doliones
Amycus
King Phineus
Harpies
symplegades
Medea, the daughter of Aeetes, king of Colchis
Aegeus, king of Athens, Theseus's father
Apsyrtus, Medea's young brother
Talus
Creon, King of Corinth
Glauke
Aegeus
Medus 

Thessaly
Iolkos
Peneus River
Mt. Pelion
Pindus Range
Corinth
Isthmia
Lemnos
Hellespont / Propontis / Bosporus
Mysia
Bebryces
Colchis
Black Sea

Golden Fleece
The Argo
Dodona
Danube
Adriatic Sea
Hesperides 

ichor
time
kleos
hubris
xenia

Calydon, Aetolia
King Oeneus and Queen Althea
Meleager
Atalanta

Euripides, Medea
Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica

 

 

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