Pelias promised to surrender his kingship to Jason if the latter would retrieve the Golden Fleece from Colchis. |
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South of the Greater Caucasus, on the Black Sea coast, lies the Kolkhida alluvial plain, the site of ancient Colchis. |
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The poem breaks off in Book VIII with Medea begging Jason not to send her back to Colchis. |
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Jason's magnificent build, his melodious, gentle voice and his beauty made the people of Colchis speak of the young hero with great admiration. |
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It was hung up in the grove of Ares in Colchis and recovered from King Aeetes by the Argonautic expedition under Jason, with the help of the sorceress, Medea the king's daughter. |
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The oracle is fulfilled: as Jason is crossing a river on his way to Colchis he meets an old woman on its banks, who asks him to carry her over the river. |
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Medea, in Greek mythology, an enchantress who helped Jason, leader of the Argonauts, to obtain the Golden Fleece from her father, King Aeëtes of Colchis. |
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