Golden Fleece

noun

, Classical Mythology.

a fleece of pure gold, kept at Colchis by King Aeëtes from whom it was stolen by Jason and the Argonauts with the help of Aeëtes's daughter, Medea.

Golden Fleece

See Phrixus
Greek myth the fleece of a winged ram that rescued Phrixus and brought him to Colchis, where he sacrificed it to Zeus. Phrixus gave the fleece to King Aeëtes who kept it in a sacred grove, whence Jason and the Argonauts stole it with the help of Aeëtes' daughter See also Phrixus

Golden Fleece

In classical mythology , the pure gold fleece of a miraculous flying ram. Jason and the Argonauts made their voyage in quest of it. The fleece was kept in a kingdom on the Black Sea .

Culturally, a man could go off to hunt for food or fight a war or chase a Golden Fleece, and the woman was at home with the kids.

It was the name of the ship that Jason and the Argonauts sailed in to liberate the Golden Fleece against impossible odds.

No such argosy had ever set out before in pursuit of the golden fleece of happiness.

The father was among the argonauts who started in search of the golden fleece to California in the year 1849.

Here the Order of the Golden Fleece is repeated on a field of flowers, exquisitely designed.

This was a load of the golden fleece of Australia, and its guardians the bullock-driver and bullock watchman.

It was immortal and was given them by their mother Nephele, and had a golden fleece, as Hesiod and Pherecydes say.

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