Golden Fleece
Publié le 22/02/2012
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Greek This fabled fleece was
worn on the back of an extraordinary ram. The ram
could talk and think, it could move through the air as
easily as on land, and it had a fleece of gold. The god
Hermes sent the ram to rescue Phrixus and Helle,
children of Athamas, king of Boeotia. The hero
Jason and his companions, the Argonauts, overcame
enormous obstacles to capture the precious fleece
and return it to King Pelias of Iolcus, in Boeotia.
Many scholars think that the "golden fleece"
represented either gold amber or perhaps the alluvial
gold found in riverbeds near the Black Sea and collected
by the natives in fleeces laid on the river beds.
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- Jason (Iason) Greek The hero of one of the most famous Greek legends, often known as "Jason and the Golden Fleece," or "Jason and the Argonauts.
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- Wolseley (sir Garnet Joseph, vicomte), 1833-1913, né à Golden Bridge (Dublin), maréchal britannique.