Jason “The Quest for the Golden Fleece” Part II Hera seeks help from Aphrodite Cupid is sent to make Medea fall for Jason King Aetes sets a challenge: Yoke together the fire-breathing bulls; Use them to plow the field; Sow the field with dragon’s teeth; Defeat the skeleton army that grows from them.
Now What? Medea gives Jason a magic salve that makes him invulnerable…(the bulls can’t hurt him) Medea tells him how to beat the skeleton army (throw a BIG boulder into the middle of their army so they will turn on each other)
Feeling Bad Medea feels real bad about betraying her Dad and all…but when she realizes Dad plans to kill her honey-love, she decides it’s time to elope. She helps Jason find the fleece, kill the dragon, and flee the country…in exchange for a promise of “eternal love”.
Big Brother is Coming Medea’s brother leads a HUGE army to bring her back to Daddy. She pretends she wants to go home to lure Bro into a trap. Jason kills him in front of his sister and they celebrate their escape. Is this the way a hero should behave?
The voyage home Jason defeats Scylla and Charybdis and Talos on the Island of Bronze and finally make it home to Crete. At home, Jason finds that Pelias has killed his father and his mother has died of grief. He decides it’s pay-back time. Medea plans the ultimate revenge…to trick Pelias’s daughters into killing their own father.
What’s for dinner? Dad Medea convinces the girls that if they kill Dad, cut him up, and boil him in a pot, he’ll be re-born all young and strong again…(well, she IS a witch.)
Happily ever after…? Jason and Medea settle down and have two sons and all is going great until Jason gets greedy. Why settle for one kingdom if you can have two by marrying the princess next door? Just like Nephele generations before, Medea worries that her sons will “go missing” at least. Jason offers to pay her off…after all she’s done for him. In a rage, she sends a poisoned cloak to the new bride who dies in agony after putting it on.
The Gods are on my side… When Jason comes to find Medea, he finds that his two sons are dead. Medea has killed them so they won’t become slaves in Corinth.
It’s Dragon time… As Jason tries to reach her on the top of the cliff, two dragons driving a golden chariot swoop down and rescue Medea and carry her off to safety. Jason’s days as “Golden Boy of the Gods” are done.