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Phrixus married a daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis and begot Argus and three other sons. The quest of Jason and the Argonauts was for this fleece. The legend of the Golden Fleece may have some basis in reality. Ancient Colchis is the modern Georgian region of Mingrelia, and in ...
enshrined in the legend of the golden fleece''. Strabo, however, long ago gave a plausible explanation of this legend in stating (Book xi., ii, 搂 9): ``The Soanes occupy the heights of Caucasus above Dioscurias'' (the present Iskuria, at the mouth of the Kodor in Abkhasia)......
If the ancient myth of the Golden Fleece does actually tell the story of the beginnings of gold production in the country of Colchis, Ünsal Yalçin and his colleague should find traces of the precious metal in the rivers of the Kaçkar Mountains. They discover black sand along the ...
The legend of the Golden Fleece was based on an expedition (c. 1200 b.c.) to Armenia to obtain alluvial gold by washing gold-bearing sands over sheepskins. By Rom. times native gold (and silver) were extracted from ore by means of mercury, the process being called amalgamation. The ...
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Argonauts, In Greek legend, a band of 50 heroes who went with Jason in the ship Argo to retrieve the Golden Fleece from the grove of Ares at Colchis. They had many adventures before arriving at Colchis, from which they were eventually forced to flee, pursued by Medea’s father, Aeë...
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Stops Along the Way to Retrieve the Golden Fleece The Argonauts made a few stops on their way to retrieve the Golden Fleece in Colchis. They stopped at The Isle of Lemnos, The Gegeines, Salmydessus in Thrace, and The Symplegades. They faced many adventures at the places they stopped, ...