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What is the reason for Jasons quest?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Jason's father, Aeson, was the rightful king of Iolcos. His brother, Pelias, was power-hungry, though, and wanted to rule the entire region of Thessaly. So, Pelias killed his brother and as many of his descendants as he could find. Jason's mother saved him from this fate.

Many years later, Jason traveled to Iolcos to claim his throne, but on the way, encountered Hera, disguised as an old woman trying to cross a river. Jason helped her across (it wasn't easy), so the woman blessed him (since she was Hera, she knew that Pelias would try to kill Jason). IN the crossing, Jason lost one of his sandals, so when he arrived in Iolcos for the games, he was announced simply as "the man with one sandal". Pelias, many years earlier, had been warned by an oracle that a man with one sandal would try to take his throne, so he accepted Jason into his home and announced that Jason could have his throne only if he could successfully return to Iolcos with the Golden Fleece of Colchis.

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12y ago

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