Golden fleece - wikipedia Golden fleece For other uses, see Golden Fleece ( disambiguation ). Jason returns with the Golden Fleece, shown on an Apulian red - figure calyx krater, ca. 340 -- 330 BC In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece ( Greek : χρυσόμαλλον δέρας chrysómallon déras ) is the fleece of the gold - haired winged ram, which was held in Colchis. The fleece is a symbol of authority and kingship. It figures in the tale of the hero Jason and his crew of Argonauts, who set out on a quest for the fleece by order of King Pelias, in order to place Jason rightfully on the throne of Iolcus in Thessaly. Through the help of Medea, they acquire the Golden Fleece. The story is of great antiquity and was current in the time of Homer ( eighth century BC ). It survives in various forms, among which the details vary. Contents 1 Plot 2 Evolution of plot 3 Interpretations 3.1 Main theories 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References 6.1 Bibliography 7 External links Plot Greek mythology Deities Primordial Titans Olympians Nymphs Sea - deities Earth - deities Heroes and heroism Heracles / Hercules ( Labors ) Achilles Hector ( Trojan War ) Odysseus ( Odyssey ) Jason Argonauts ( Golden Fleece ) Perseus ( Medusa Gorgon ) Oedipus ( Sphinx ) Orpheus ( Orphism ) Theseus ( Minotaur ) Bellerophon ( Pegasus Chimera ) Daedalus ( Labyrinth ) Atalanta Hippomenes ( Golden apple ) Cadmus ( Thebes ) Aeneas ( Aeneid ) Triptolemus ( Eleusinian Mysteries ) Pelops ( Ancient Olympic Games ) Pirithous ( Centauromachy ) Amphitryon ( Teumessian fox ) Narcissus ( Narcissism ) Meleager ( Calydonian Boar ) Otrera ( Amazons ) Related Satyrs Centaurs Dragons Demogorgon Religion in Ancient Greece Mycenaean gods Greek mythology portal Athamas the Minyan, a founder of Halos in Thessaly but also king of the city of Orchomenus in Boeotia ( a region of southeastern Greece ), took the goddess Nephele as his first wife. They had two children, the boy Phrixus ( whose name means `` curly '' -- as in ram 's fleece ) and the girl Helle. Later Athamas became enamored of and married Ino, the daughter of Cadmus. When Nephele left in anger, drought came upon the land. Ino was jealous of her stepchildren and plotted their deaths : in some versions, she persuaded Athamas that sacrificing Phrixus was the only way to end the drought. Nephele, or her spirit, appeared to the children with a winged ram whose fleece was of gold. The ram had been sired by Poseidon in his primitive ram - form upon Theophane, a nymph and the granddaughter of Helios, the sun - god. According to Hyginus, Poseidon carried Theophane to an island where he made her into a ewe, so that he could have his way with her among the flocks. There Theophane 's other suitors could not distinguish the ram - god and his consort. Nepheles ' children escaped on the yellow ram over the sea, but Helle fell off and drowned in the strait now named after her, the Hellespont. The ram spoke to Phrixus, encouraging him, and took the boy safely to Colchis ( modern - day Georgia ), on the easternmost shore of the Euxine ( Black ) Sea. There Phrixus sacrificed the winged ram to Poseidon, essentially returning him to the god. The ram became the constellation Aries. Phrixus settled in the house of Aeetes, son of Helios the sun god. He hung the Golden Fleece preserved from the sacrifice of the ram on an oak in a grove sacred to Ares, the god of war and one of the Twelve Olympians. The golden fleece was defended by bulls with hoofs of brass and breath of fire. It was also guarded by a never sleeping dragon with teeth which could become soldiers when planted in the ground. The dragon was at the foot of the tree on which the fleece was placed. Evolution of plot Pindar employed the quest for the Golden Fleece in his Fourth Pythian Ode ( written in 462 BC ), though the fleece is not in the foreground. When Aeetes challenges Jason to yoke the fire - breathing bulls, the fleece is the prize : `` Let the King do this, the captain of the ship ! Let him do this, I say, and have for his own the immortal coverlet, the fleece, glowing with matted skeins of gold ''. In later versions of the story, the ram is said to have been the offspring of the sea god Poseidon and Themisto ( less often, Nephele or Theophane ). The classic telling is the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes, composed in mid-third century BC Alexandria, recasting early sources that have not survived. Another, much less - known Argonautica, using the same body of myth, was composed in Latin by Valerius Flaccus during the time of Vespasian. Where the written sources fail, through accidents of history, sometimes the continuity of a mythic tradition can be found among the vase - painters. The story of the Golden Fleece appeared to have little resonance for Athenians of the Classic age, for only two representations of it on Attic - painted wares of the fifth century have been identified : a krater at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a kylix in the Vatican collections. In the kylix painted by Douris, ca 480 - 470, Jason is being disgorged from the mouth of the dragon, a detail that does not fit easily into the literary sources ; behind the dragon, the fleece hangs from an apple tree. Jason 's helper in the Athenian vase - paintings is not Medea -- who had a history in Athens as the opponent of Theseus -- but Athena. Interpretations The very early origin of the myth in preliterate times means that during the more than a millennium when it was to some degree part of the fabric of culture, its perceived significance likely passed through numerous developments. Several euhemeristic attempts to interpret the Golden Fleece `` realistically '' as reflecting some physical cultural object or alleged historical practice have been made. For example, in the 20th century, some scholars suggested that the story of the Golden Fleece signified the bringing of sheep husbandry to Greece from the east ; in other readings, scholars theorized it referred to golden grain, or to the sun. A sluice box used in placer mining. A more widespread interpretation relates the myth of the fleece to a method of washing gold from streams, which was well attested ( but only from c. 5th century BC ) in the region of Georgia to the east of the Black Sea. Sheep fleeces, sometimes stretched over a wood frame, would be submerged in the stream, and gold flecks borne down from upstream placer deposits would collect in them. The fleeces would be hung in trees to dry before the gold was shaken or combed out. Alternatively, the fleeces would be used on washing tables in alluvial mining of gold or on washing tables at deep gold mines. Judging by the very early gold objects from a range of cultures, washing for gold is a very old human activity. Strabo describes the way in which gold could be washed : `` It is said that in their country gold is carried down by the mountain torrents, and that the barbarians obtain it by means of perforated troughs and fleecy skins, and that this is the origin of the myth of the golden fleece -- unless they call them Iberians, by the same name as the western Iberians, from the gold mines in both countries. '' Another interpretation is based on the references in some versions to purple or purple - dyed cloth. The purple dye extracted from the purple dye murex snail and related species was highly prized in ancient times. Clothing made of cloth dyed with Tyrian purple was a mark of great wealth and high station ( hence the phrase `` royal purple '' ). The association of gold with purple is natural and occurs frequently in literature. Main theories The Douris cup, depicting Jason being regurgitated by the dragon protecting the fleece Jason attempts to put to sleep the serpent guarding the golden fleece. The snake is coiled around a column at the base of which is a ram and on top of which is a bird. The following are the chief among the various interpretations of the fleece, with notes on sources and major critical discussions : It represents royal power. It represents the flayed skin of Krios ( ' Ram ' ), companion of Phrixus. It represents a book on alchemy. It represents a technique of writing in gold on parchment. It represents a form of placer mining practiced in Georgia, for example. It represents the forgiveness of God. It represents a rain cloud. It represents a land of golden grain. It represents the spring - hero. It represents the sea reflecting the sun. It represents the gilded prow of Phrixus ' ship. It represents a breed of sheep in ancient Georgia. It represents the riches imported from the East. It represents the wealth or technology of Colchis. It was a covering for a cult image of Zeus in the form of a ram. It represents a fabric woven from sea silk. It is about a voyage from Greece, through the Mediterranean, across the Atlantic to the Americas. It represents trading fleece dyed murex - purple for Georgian gold. It represents allegations of Utopianism. See also List of mythological objects Absyrtus Gold mining Order of the Golden Fleece The Sea of Monsters Notes Jump up ^ χρυσόμαλλος, Chrysomallos ' or ' Khrysomallus ' Jump up ^ That the ram was sent by Zeus was the version heard by Pausanias in the second century CE ( Pausanias, ix. 34.5 ). Jump up ^ Theophane may equally be construed as `` appearing as a goddess '' or as `` causing a god to appear ''. Jump up ^ Upon the shield of Jason, as it was described in Apollonius ' Argonautica, `` was Phrixos the Minyan, depicted as though really listening to the ram, and the ram seemed to be speaking. As you looked on this pair, you would be struck dumb with amazement and deceived, for you would expect to hear some wise utterance from them, with this hope you would gaze long upon them. ''. Jump up ^ In essence this act returned the ram to the god, though in the surviving literary source, Apollonius ' Argonautica ii, the ram was sacrificed to Zeus, rescuer of fugitives. Jump up ^ Vatican 16545 Jump up ^ Gisela Richter published the Metropolitan Museum 's krater in `` Jason and the Golden Fleece '', American Journal of Archaeology 39 ( 1935 ) Jump up ^ Interpretation # 12 Jump up ^ Interpretation # 8 Jump up ^ Interpretation # 10 Jump up ^ Interpretation # 5 Jump up ^ Interpretation # 17 References ^ Jump up to : William Godwin ( 1876 ). `` Lives of the Necromancers ''. p. 41. Jump up ^ Strabo, ix. 5.8. Jump up ^ Karl Kerenyi, The Heroes of the Greeks Jump up ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 163 Jump up ^ Karl Kerenyi The Gods of the Greeks, ( 1951 ) 1980 : 182f Jump up ^ Richard Hunter, tr. Apollonius of Rhodes : Jason and the Golden Fleece, ( Oxford University Press ) 1993 : 21 ) Jump up ^ Translation in Nigel Nicholson, `` Polysemy and Ideology in Pindar ' Pythian ' 4.229 - 230 '', Phoenix 54. 3 / 4 ( Autumn - Winter 2000 : 191 - 202 ) p. 192. Jump up ^ Cynthia King, `` Who Is That Cloaked Man ? Observations on Early Fifth Century B.C. Pictures of the Golden Fleece '', American Journal of Archaeology 87. 3 ( July 1983 : 385 - 387 ). Jump up ^ Marcus Porcius Cato and Marcus Terentius Varro, ( http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12140/12140-8.txt Roman Farm Management, The Treatises of Cato and Varro, in English, with Notes of Modern Instances Jump up ^ Braund ( 1994 ), pp. 21 -- 23 Jump up ^ Popko, M. ( 1974 ) `` Kult Swietego runa w hetyckiej Anatolii '' ( `` The Cult of the Golden Fleece in Hittite Anatolia '' ), Preglad Orientalistyczuy 91, pp. 225 -- 30 ( In Russian ) Jump up ^ Newman, John Kevin ( 2001 ) `` The Golden Fleece. Imperial Dream '' ( Theodore Papanghelis and Antonios Rengakos ( eds. ). A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius. Leiden : Brill ( Mnemosyne Supplement 217 ), 309 - 40 ) Jump up ^ Lordkipanidze ( 2001 ) Jump up ^ Diodorus Siculus 4. 47 ; cf. scholia on Apollonius Rhodius 2. 1144 ; 4. 119, citing Dionysus ' Argonautica Jump up ^ Palaephatus ( fourth century BC ) ' On the Incredible ' ( Festa, N. ( ed. ) ( 1902 ) Mythographi Graeca III, 2, Lipsiae, p. 89 Jump up ^ John of Antioch fr. 15.3 FHG ( 5.548 ) Jump up ^ Haraxes of Pergamum ( c. first to sixth century ) ( Jacoby, F. ( 1923 ) Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker I ( Berlin ), IIA, 490, fr. 37 ) Jump up ^ Strabo ( first century BC ) Geography I, 2, 39 ( Jones, H.L. ( ed. ) ( 1969 ) The Geography of Strabo ( in eight volumes ) London `` Strabo, Geography, NOTICE ''. Perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 26 May 2012. Jump up ^ Tran, T ( 1992 ) `` The Hydrometallurgy of Gold Processing '', Interdisciplinary Science Reviews ( UK ), 17, pp. 356 -- 365 Jump up ^ `` Gold - during the Classic Era ''. Minelinks.com. Retrieved 26 May 2012. Jump up ^ Shuker, Karl P.N. 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( 1921 ), `` Die Bedeutung des Wassers im Kult und Leben der Alten, '' Philologus Suppl 14.2, Leipzig Jump up ^ Ryder, M.L. ( 1991 ) `` The last word on the Golden Fleece legend ? '' Oxford Journal of Archaeology 10, pp. 57 -- 60 Jump up ^ Smith, G.J. and Smith, A.J. ( 1992 ) `` Jason 's Golden Fleece, '' Oxford Journal of Archaeology 11, pp. 119 -- 20 Jump up ^ Bacon ( 1925 ) Jump up ^ Akaki Urushadze ( 1984 ), The Country of the Enchantress Medea, Tbilisi Jump up ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20051125172255/http://www.lazuri.com/kolheti/en_index.php. Archived from the original on 25 November 2005. Retrieved 13 October 2005. Missing or empty title = ( help ) Jump up ^ `` Colchis, The Land Of The Golden Fleece, Republic Of Georgia ''. Great-adventures.com. Retrieved 26 May 2012. Jump up ^ Robert Graves ( 1944 / 1945 ), The Golden Fleece / Hercules, My Shipmate, New York : Grosset & Dunlap Jump up ^ Verrill, A. 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Question: who led the argonauts in search of the golden fleece
Answer: Jason