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Description edit
The story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece is one of the oldest and most familiar tales in classical literature. Apollonius of Rhodes wrote the best-known version, in Greek, in the third century B.C.E. The Latin poet Gaius Valerius Flaccus began his own... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Jason: Add a description of this character.
- Alcides
- Jove
- Medea
- Pelias
- Tiphys
- Viii
- Langen
- Diana
- Mopsus
- Juno
- Colchis
- Pollux
- Helle
- Phineus
- Cyzicus
- Pallas
- Aeson
- Phasis
- Telamon
- Phrixus
- Troy
- Minerva
- Tisiphone
- Peleus
- Athos
- Phoebus
- Phasidis
- Hylas
- Grais
- Argo
- Martis
- Phoebi
- Nestor
- Iason
- Aeolus
- Aeetes
- Halys
- Gradivus
- Bacchi
- Phrixi
- Phrixe
First Sentence edit
Those straits the mighty sons of the gods first sailed, we sing, and their sacred ship that dared the banks of Scythia's Phasis, braving Symplegades' rocks that clashed together, and sank and settled to rest at last in the depths of the starry sky.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Gaius Valerius Flaccus (Author)
Classification edit
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- Dewey: 873.01
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Mythology › Greek & Roman
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Poetry › Epic
- Books › Nonfiction › Foreign Language Nonfiction › Latin
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Poetry › Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics › Greek
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Poetry › Anthologies
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism
- Books › History › Ancient
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