英雄jason的故事

nullnullnull●the son of Aeson , the rightful king of lolcus(伊俄尔科斯王国) ●a late ancient Greek mythological hero from the late 10th century BC. ●famous as the leader of the Argonauts and their quest（寻求） for the Golden Fleece（金羊毛）.null null●Pelias (Jason’s uncle) was very power-hungry. He wished to gain dominion over all of Thessaly. ●He overthrew Aeson(the rightful king),killing all the descendants that he could. He spared his half-brother for unknown reason. Alcimede (wife of Aeson )already had an infant son named Jason. She sent Jason to the centaur Chiron to for education, for fear that Pelias would kill him. She claimed that she had been having an affair with him all along. The centaur trained him to be a hero. null●Twenty years later,Jason went back to lolcus, knowing that he was the rightful king and told Pelias. But he said “To take my throne, which you shall, you must go on a quest to find the Golden Fleece”, Jason happily accepted the quest. nullnullnull●Jason assembled a great group of heroes, which known as Argonaut(阿尔戈英雄) their ship after the Argo（阿尔戈号). They met so many troubles and finally got the destination Colchis. ●The Fleece was owned by the king Aeetes. He promised to give him only if he could perform three certain tasks. At the beginning, Jason was so depressed. But with the aid of Medea(Aeetes’s daughter), he eventually did it.null●three tasks ★ plow a field with fire-breathing oxen and yoke himself. Medea gave him a ointment（药膏） that protect him from the oxen’s flames. ★ sowed the teeth of a dragon into a field. The teeth sprouted（萌芽） into an arm of a warrors. Because he was previously told that how to defeat this foe（敌人）. Before they attacked him, he threw a rock into the crowd. Unable to discover where the rock had come from, the soldiers attacked and defeated one another. null★ His last task was to overcome the sleepless dragon which guarded the Golden Fleece. Jason sprayed （喷洒） the dragon with a potion, given by Medea, distilled（蒸馏） from herbs. The dragon fell asleep, and Jason was able to seize the Golden Fleece. He then sailed away with Medea. Medea distracted （使心烦）her father, who chased them as they fled, by killing her brother Apsyrtus and throwing pieces of his body into the sea; Aeetes stopped to gather them.nullnullPossessed the Golden Fleece, Jason went back to lolcus. However, his uncle didn’t keep his promise. So, Jason escaped to Corinth with Medea. There, Medea gave birth to three sons for him. When Medea got older and older and became ugly, Jason was fall in love with Creusa ( daughter of the king). He forced her to divorce. The king was determined to expel(驱逐) her out of his country. Medea demanded him to delay one day in order to arrange her children. The king accepted. nullJason bringing Pelias the Golden Fleece.nullnullMedea took her revenge by presenting to Creusa a cursed dress ,as a wedding gift that stuck to her body and burned her to death as soon as she put it on. Her father Creon burned to death as he tried to save her. nullThen, Medea killed her children she born to Jason fearing that they would be killed or enslaved as a result of their mother’s actions. When Jason come to know of this, Medea was already gone. She fled to Athens in a chariot sent by her grandfather. nullMedea Killing Her chilrdren nullLater, Jason reclained the throne of lolcus for himself. His son, Thessalus, then became king. As a result of breaking his vow to love Medea forever, he lost his favor with Hera and died lonely and unhappily. He was asleep under the stern of the rotting Argo, when it fell on him, killing him instantly. The manner of his death was due to the deities cursing him for breaking his promise to Medea. null