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Updated: May 9, 2025
Yet not in the house of Alcinous was the hero, Aeson's son, minded to complete his marriage, but in his father's hall when he had returned home to Iolcus; and such was the mind of Medea herself; but necessity led them to wed at this time.
But just quietly bid thy boy charm Aeetes' daughter with love for Jason. For if she will aid him with her kindly counsel, easily do I think he will win the fleece of gold and return to Iolcus, for she is full of wiles." Thus she spake, and Cypris addressed them both: "Hera and Athena, he will obey you rather than me.
And as they went, Heracles spoke to each of the heroes, saying that they were forgetting the Fleece of Gold that they had sailed to gain. Jason blushed to think that he had almost let go out of his mind the quest that had brought him from Iolcus.
When he had spoken he saw his father's stricken eyes; they were fixed upon him. But he looked from them to the shining eyes of the young men who were even then pressing around where he stood. "Jason, Jason!" they shouted. "The Golden Fleece for Iolcus!" "King Pelias knows that the winning of the Golden Fleece is a feat most difficult," said Jason.
So King Pelias said, but Jason, looking to the king from his father's stricken eyes, saw that he had been led by the king into the acceptance of the voyage so that he might fare far from Iolcus, and perhaps lose his life in striving to gain the wonder that King Æetes kept guarded. By the glitter in Pelias's eyes he knew the truth.
Greatly was he amazed at the words that poured forth from her as she stood at the stone throne of King Thoas he was amazed as one is amazed at the rush of rich notes that comes from the throat of a little bird; all that she said was made lightning-like by her eyes her eyes that were not clear and quiet like the eyes of the maidens he had seen in Iolcus, but that were dark and burning.
But Pelias was too strong to be attacked openly, so the hero employed a strange stratagem, suggested by the cunning magician Medea. He and his companions halted at some distance from Iolcus, while Medea entered the town alone, pretending that she was a fugitive from the ill-treatment of Jason.
She filled a phial with the liquid she had brewed, and she scattered the rest in the wild places of the garden. Then, taking the phial and the apples that had grown on the withered branch, she mounted the car drawn by the dragons, and she went once more from Corinth. On she journeyed in her dragon-drawn car until she came to a place that was near to Iolcus. There the dragons descended.
Joined by the principal heroes of Greece, Hercules among the number, Jason set sail from Iolcus in the ship Argo, after first invoking the favor of Jupiter, the winds, and the waves, for the success of the expedition.
And in his dream the goddess bade him rise early in the morning and welcome a man whom he would meet at the city's gate a tall and gray-haired man who would have on his shoulders tools for the building of a ship. He went to the city's gate and he met such a man. Argus was his name. He told Jason that a dream had sent him to the city of Iolcus.
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