Golden Fleece - Mythology.

Golden Fleece - Mythology. 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.