1. The Adventures of Jason
The world’s weakest Hero
CMM 10

2. Prologue Phrixus & Helle escape the evil stepmother
Helle names the “Hellespont”
Phrixus hangs it up

3. Prologue (2) Pelias drives out Aeson Jason goes to live with Chiron
Pelias receives an oracle

4. Jason comes home An old woman at a swollen river
Pelias gets Jason’s advice
Jason recruits Argus & the Argonauts

5. Roll call for Heroes! Peleus (f. of Achilles) Hercules Castor & Pollux
Telamon (f. of Ajax)
Lynceus & Idas
Orpheus
Zetes & Calais (the Boreades)

6. Early Adventures Lemnos (2) – Island of the smelly women!
Cyzicus (5) – There & back again!
Cius (6) – What happened to Hercules?
Bithynia & Amycus (7)

7. Phineus & the Harpies Phineus’ “sees”, but doesn’t see
Phineus can’t get a decent meal
The Boreades help out
Phineus warns the Argonauts about the Symplegades

8. The Symplegades

9. Arrival at Colchis Hera & Athena scheme to help the Argonauts
Aphrodite bribes Eros for help in the goddess’ scheme
Jason plans to ask King Aeetes of Colchis for help
Aeetes test the Argonauts & plans to kill them

10. The things we do for Love (1)
The Argonauts urge Jason to get Medea’s help
Medea’s dream & Chalciope’s advice
Medea prepares a charm & meets Jason

11. The next day… Jason yokes the bulls & sows the dragon’s teeth
Relations between the dragon-men get rocky!

12. In for a penny, in for a pound!
Medea flees to Jason,
Gets his promise of marriage
And helps him get the fleece

13. A heinous crime The Argonauts set sail, pursued by Absyrtus
Jason tricks, then kills Absyrtus

14. An alternate, just as heinous crime
The Argonauts flee with Absyrtus, chased by Aeetes
Medea leaves a distraction…

15. Adventures on the way home…
Scylla & Charybdis
Sirens (thanks Orpheus!)
Purification from Circe
& marriage in Phaeacia
Talus, bronze giant of Crete

16. A Map for all these shenanigans!

17. Meanwhile, back at the ranch
Jason hands over the Golden fleece to Pelias
Medea Restores youth to Aeson
And Pelias’ daughters cut him into pieces!

18. Years later… In exile at Corinth, Jason jilts Medea…
who sends Glauce a killer robe…
…kills their children
…& flies to Athens in a chariot pulled by dragons

19. Where does this fit in the story?

20. Just cause I like them…

21. The Girl as Helper Motif
A youth comes into the power of an ogre
Who gives him seemingly impossible tasks
Which he accomplishes with the help of the ogre’s daughter
Who flees with him because she’s in love.
The ogre chases them, but
The daughter throws objects into his path.
The youth magically loses memory of his bride,
But it is restored