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Jason and the Golden Fleece

The Ancients

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The Ram and the Evil Stepmother

The ram is distinctive because as in a fairy tale so with this Greek myth, we begin with an evil stepmother. Who is this evil stepmother married to? She is married to Athimas, the king of Thessaly. And she sadly dies but not before she has given Athimas two beautiful children - frixus and Healy. Do you think that Poseidon, who is the grandfather of course of this boy and this girl, do you think that he's going to just sit back in his watery palace and let this horrible woman be beastly to his grandchildren? No.

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