01/09/2023
THE GOLDEN FLEECE
Chapter one
The brave men of is own country,and called sadly by their beds: come and set my spirit free, that I may go home to my fathers and to my kinfolk and the pleasant Minuan land.
And they asked him: how can we set your spirit free ?' And Phrixus answered: you must sail over the sea to Colchis,and bring home the golden fleece; and then my spirit will come home ๐ก with it,and I shall sleep with my father and be at rest. Phrixus often came to the heroes in dreams,and when they awoke they looked at one another and said : who dares to sail Colchis,to bring home the golden fleece? And for a long time,in all that country there was no one brave enough to try.
Near to Phrixus' home in boeotia,was a place by the sea called loicos,ruled over by รson, who was a cousin of Phrixus,and he had a little son named Jason. รson was driven out of his kingdom by his wicked stepbrother pelias, who made himself king of Iolcos in รson's place.รson went sadly away, leading his little son Jason by the hand; and he said to himself : I must hide the child in the mountains or pelias will be sure to kill him, because he ought to be king after me.'so รson led Jason up into the mountain, and when the little boy was tired his father carried him in his arms.