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Show evidences of knowledge of Pleiades, Herakles, Theseus, Odysseus, similar functions, motifs, and plots between the myths. What common elements or motifs does Jason share with other myths?
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Jason
The great adventurer
The adventures of Jason, a prince of Iolcus in Thessaly, were as popular as those of Odysseus. Jason’s early life, like that of Theseus, was marked by his early isolation from the court and eventually returns as a young man to claim his royal birthright. When Pelias, the brother of Jason’s father King Aeson of Iolcus, seized the throne, Jason was sent away by his mother to Mount Pelion to be educated by Chiron, a wise Centaur who taught him the arts of music, medicine, hunting and warfare. When he was twenty, he returned to Iolcus and on his way came upon a river, where he met an old woman – really a Goddess Hera in disguise – who asked him to carry her across. He as glad to assist, and thereby won the protection of the goddess on his subsequent adventures.
In helping Hera across the river Jason lost a sandal and arrived Iolcus with one bare foot. Pelias had been warned by an oracle to beware the arrival of a stranger with only one shoe and was terrified by Jason’s approach. He cratily agreed to yield his throne to his nephew if the young man would complete one seemingly impossible task, namely to bring him the famous Golden Fleece from Colchis at the furthest end of the Black Sea. Jason accepted the challenge and won the fleece after many adventures in his ship, the Argo.
The hero returned home with Medea the daughter of Aeetes, to find that Pelias has put Aeson to death. Medea helped Jason to avenge his father’s death by arranging the gruesome murder of Pelias. Many years after the tragic end of Jason’s marriage to Mea, the hero is said to have died when a piece of the Argo, which had been dedicated in a temple, fell on his head.