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21 Cards in this Set
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Jason and the Argonauts
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Going for the fleece
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Jason and the Argonauts, written by...?
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Homer?
Or Apollonius |
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Jason and Medea
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Medea is the first of Jason's companions.
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Origin of the Golden Fleece
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Athamas has two kids, (Helle and Phrixus) but leaves mom for Ino. Ino wants to kill kids.
Tries to get Phrixus sacrificed for famine. Ram appears is sacrificed to Zeus. Fleece to local king. |
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Pelias
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A son of Poseidon, becomes king by force. Imprisons half brother; Aeson
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Aeson
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Father of Jason, who is raised elsewhere by Chiron.
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Iolcus... sandal quest.
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Results in the Golden Fleece quest.
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Some of the Argonauts
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Dioscuri (Castor and Polydeuces)
Meleager Admetus Augeas Argus |
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The women of Lemnos
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Stinky Vaginas. Killed all, but the Queen Hyp saved her father.
Seduces the Argonauts. |
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Hylas
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Hercules stops for new oar. Hylas is abducted.
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The Symplegades "Clashing Rocks"
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Send a dove through the clashing rocks. If it survives, GO!
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Jason's Great Labor
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Yoke 2 fire breathing bulls. Plant the remaining Cadmus teeth. Then kill the men.
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Jason's Great Labor finishes how?
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Medea helps if she gets to go back to Greece.
Uses a rock to trick the grown men. |
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How does he get the fleece?
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Medea gives dragon a sleep potion and kills her own brother.
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Talos
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Defeated by Medea by tricks and illusions
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Rumors of the Argo
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it has sunk, and Pelias celebrates.
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Jason gives the Fleece to Pelias
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Refuses to give throne, Medea tricks daughters to boil him.
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Aftermath of Pelias death
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Pair exiled to Corinth.
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Who wrote Medea?
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Euripides
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Jason.... effs up.
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Wants to marry Creon's daughter. Creon exiles Medea.
Never gets kingship. Not a heroic end. |
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Calydonian Boar Hunt
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Meleager hunts this boar
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