The seasonal symbolism theory of the German scholar R. Shröder (1899) saw Jason as the “spring hero” who retrieved the Golden ...

Interpreting data… The entity known as Hades exhibits symptoms of social rejection, resulting in the desire for material gain symbolized by the Golden Fleece of Colchis.

With the fleece in hand, Jason and his Argonauts, fled Colchis. To help them, Medea murdered her brother and threw pieces of his body into the sea.

(Colchis, which is known from Greek mythology as the land where Jason went in search of the Golden Fleece, was in fact, as the myth suggests, very rich in gold.) Despite the significance of the finds ...

But when they reached Colchis, it was the goddess Aphrodite who won the Fleece for them. She made her son Eros wait behind a pillar with his bow until handsome Jason strode into the King of ...

The Golden Fleece, Dr. Taggart explains, was probably nothing but a detail of Heroic Age mining technique. The early Greeks lined their gold-washing sluices with sheepskins.