Chapter 12: Iason and the Argo
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♠ Th 992-1002 – Hesiod, Theogony
And the son of Aeson by the will of the gods led away from Aeetes the daughter of Aeetes the heaven-nurtured king, when he had finished the many grievous labours [995] which the great king, overbearing Pelias, that outrageous and presumptuous doer of violence, put upon him. But when the son of Aeson had finished them, he came to Iolcus after long toil bringing the coy-eyed girl with him on his swift ship, and made her his buxom wife. [1000] And she was subject to Iason, shepherd of the people, and bore a son Medeus whom Cheiron the son of Philyra brought up in the mountains. And the will of great Zeus was fulfilled. Greek Text
♠ Paus 5.18.3 – Pausanias, Description of Greece
Medeia is seated upon a throne, while Jason stands on her right and Aphrodite on her left. On them is an inscription:—“Jason weds Medeia, as Aphrodite bids. Greek Text
♠ Mim 11 W –Mimnermos: Iambi et Elegi Graeci 2, p. 86, ed. M. L. West. Oxford 1972.
Neither Iason himself would have brought back the great fleece
from Aia having completed his grievous journey,
finishing the troublesome task for insolent (hubristês) Pelias,
nor would they have reached the beautiful stream of Okeanos. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)
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Edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, March 2022.
