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Jason and the Golden Fleece

The Ancients

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The Wedding Dress and the Argo

Jason is distraught after Medea kills all their children. He goes back to confront her and she summons a chariot hauled by dragons. But he's so upset that Hera nudges the figurehead of the Argo with a divine finger, it falls down and brains him. And that's the end of Jason. It's a story that begins like a fairy story and ends like a Greek tragedy.

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