Argonauts - Revision history

Irlandos at 15:48, January 30, 2006

2006-01-30T15:48:20Z

Irlandos: /* Spoken-word myths — audio files */

2006-01-30T15:47:44Z

Spoken-word myths — audio files

Irlandos at 15:46, January 30, 2006

2006-01-30T15:46:00Z

New page

In [[Greek mythology]], the '''Argonauts''' were a band of heroes who, in the years before the [[Trojan War]], accompanied [[Jason]] to [[Colchis]] in his quest for the [[Golden Fleece]]. Their name comes from their ship, the [[Argo]] which in turn was named after its builder [[Argus]]. They were sometimes called [[Minyans]], after a [[prehistoric]] tribe of the area.

== Story ==

[[Pelias]], king of [[Iolcus]] in [[Thessaly]] (near the modern city of [[Volos]]), had been warned to be on his guard against a man with one shoe and, one day, upon seeing his nephew Jason with only one sandal (the other having been lost in crossing a stream), bade him to go and fetch the [[Golden Fleece]], hoping that he would be killed in the attempt.

Jason was accompanied by some of the principal heroes of [[ancient Greece]]. The number of Argonauts varies but usually totals between 40 and 55 – traditional versions of the story place their number at 50.

Some have hypothesised that the legend of the Golden Fleece was based on a practice of the Black Sea tribes of placing a lamb's fleece at the bottom of a stream to entrap particles of gold being washed down from upstream. This practice was still in use in recent times.

The Argonauts ([[Jason]] and [[Medea]] are sometimes not counted) were:

#[[Acastus]]
#[[Admetus]]
#[[Aethalides]]
#[[Amphion]]
#[[Argus]]
#[[Ascalaphus]]
#[[Atalanta]] (others claim Jason forbade her because she was a woman)
#[[Autolycus]]
#[[Butes]]
#[[Boreads|Calais]]
#[[Canthus]]
#[[Castor and Polydeuces|Castor]]
#[[Cytissorus]]
#[[Echion (Argonaut)|Echion]]
#[[Euphemus]]
#[[Euryalus]]
#[[Heracles]]
#[[Hylas]]
#[[Idas]]
#[[Idmon]]
#[[Iolaus]]
#[[Jason]]
#[[Laertes]]
#[[Lynceus]]
#[[Melas]]
#[[Meleager]]
#[[Oileus]]
#[[Orpheus]]
#[[Palaemon]]
#[[Peleus]]
#[[Philoctetes]]
#[[Phrontis]]
#[[Poeas]]
#[[Castor and Polydeuces|Polydeuces]]
#[[Polyphemus]]
#[[Poriclymenus]]
#[[Talaus]]
#[[Telamon]]
#[[Theseus]] (others claim he was still in the underworld at the time)
#[[Tiphys]]
#[[Boreads|Zetes]]

==Spoken-word myths — audio files==

{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|-
! style="background:#ffdead;" | Argonaut myths as told by story tellers
|-
|[[Media:Hercules and Hylas wiki.ogg|'''1. Heracles in Mysia (Hylas episode),''' read by Timothy Carter, music by Steve Gorn, compiled by Andrew Calimach]]
|-
|Bibliography of reconstruction: [[Homer]], ''Odyssey,'' 12.072 (7th c. BC); [[Theocritus]], ''Idylls,'' 13 (350 - 310 BC); [[Callimachus]], ''Aetia (Causes)'', 24. Thiodamas the Dryopian, Fragments, 160. Hymn to Artemis (310 - 250? BC); [[Apollonios Rhodios]], ''Argonautika,'' I. 1175 - 1280 (c. 250 BC); [[Apollodorus]], ''Library and Epitome'' 1.9.19, 2.7.7 (140 BC); [[Sextus Propertius]], ''Elegies,'' i.20.17ff (50 - 15 BC); [[Ovid]], ''Ibis,'' 488 (AD 8 - 18); [[Gaius Valerius Flaccus]], ''Argonautica,'' I.110, III.535, 560, IV.1-57 (1st c. AD); [[Hyginus]], ''Fables,'' 14. Argonauts Assembled (1st c. AD); [[Philostratus the Elder]], ''Images,'' ii.24 Thiodamas (AD 170 - 245); [[First Vatican Mythographer]], 49. Hercules et Hylas
|-
|[[Media:Orpheus and the Thracians wiki.ogg|'''2. Orpheus and the Thracians,''' read by Timothy Carter, music by Steve Gorn, compiled by Andrew Calimach]]
|-
|Bibliography of reconstruction: [[Pindar]], ''Pythian Odes,'' 4.176 (462 BC); Roman marble bas-relief, copy of a Greek original from the late 5th c. (c. 420 BC); [[Aristophanes]], ''The Frogs'' 1032 (c. 400 BC); [[Phanocles]], ''Erotes e Kaloi,'' 15 (3rd c. BC); [[Apollonios Rhodios]], ''Argonautika,'' i.2 (c. 250 BC); [[Apollodorus]], ''Library and Epitome'' 1.3.2 (140 BC); [[Diodorus Siculus]], ''Histories'' I.23, I.96, III.65, IV.25 (1st c. BC); [[Conon]], ''Narrations,'' 45 (50 - 1 BC); [[Virgil]], ''Georgics,'' IV.456 (37 - 30 BC); [[Horace]], ''Odes,'' I.12; ''Ars Poetica'' 391-407 (23 BC); [[Ovid]], ''Metamorphoses'' X.1-85, XI.1-65 (AD 8); [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca]], ''Hercules Furens'' 569 (1st c. AD); [[Hyginus]], ''Poetica Astronomica'' II.7 Lyre (2st c. AD); [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece,'' 2.30.2, 9.30.4, 10.7.2 (143 - 176 AD); Anonymous, ''The Clementine Homilies,'' Homily V Chapter XV.-Unnatural Lusts (c. 400 AD); Anonymous, ''Orphic Argonautica'' (5th c. AD); [[Stobaeus]], ''Anthologium'' (c. 450 AD); [[Second Vatican Mythographer]], 44. Orpheus
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[Argo Navis]]
*[[Jason]] for more details on the quest for the Golden Fleece

==Sources==
*[[Apollonius Rhodius]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' I, 23-227;
*[[Apollodorus]], ''[[Bibliotheke]]'' I, ix, 16.

{{Credit wikipedia}}

[[Category:Argonauts|*]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 15:48, January 30, 2006
Line 1:		Line 1:
−	In [[Greek mythology]], the '''Argonauts''' were a band of heroes who, in the years before the [[Trojan War]], accompanied [[Jason]] to [[Colchis]] in his quest for the [[Golden Fleece]]. Their name comes from their ship, the [[Argo]] which in turn was named after its builder [[Argus]]. They were sometimes called [[Minyans]], after a [[prehistoric]] tribe of the area.	+	In [[Greek mythology]], the '''Argonauts''' were a band of heroes who, in the years before the [[Trojan War]], accompanied [[Jason]] to [[Colchis]] in his quest for the [[Golden Fleece]]. Their name comes from their ship, the [[Argo]] which in turn was named after its builder [[Argus]]. They were sometimes called [[Minyans]], after a prehistoric tribe of the area.

← Older revision		Revision as of 15:47, January 30, 2006
Line 53:		Line 53:
	#[[Tiphys]]		#[[Tiphys]]
	#[[Boreads\|Zetes]]		#[[Boreads\|Zetes]]
−
−	~~==Spoken-word myths — audio files==~~
−
−	~~{\| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"~~
−	\|-
−	~~! style="background:#ffdead;" \| Argonaut myths as told by story tellers~~
−	\|-
−	~~\|[[Media:Hercules and Hylas wiki.ogg\|'''1. Heracles in Mysia (Hylas episode),''' read by Timothy Carter, music by Steve Gorn, compiled by Andrew Calimach]]~~
−	\|-
−	\|Bibliography of reconstruction: [[Homer]], ''Odyssey,'' 12.072 (7th c. BC); [[Theocritus]], ''Idylls,'' 13 (350 - 310 BC); [[Callimachus]], ''Aetia (Causes)'', 24. Thiodamas the Dryopian, Fragments, 160. Hymn to Artemis (310 - 250? BC); [[Apollonios Rhodios]], ''Argonautika,'' I. 1175 - 1280 (c. 250 BC); [[Apollodorus]], ''Library and Epitome'' 1.9.19, 2.7.7 (140 BC); [[Sextus Propertius]], ''Elegies,'' i.20.17ff (50 - 15 BC); [[Ovid]], ''Ibis,'' 488 (AD 8 - 18); [[Gaius Valerius Flaccus]], ''Argonautica,'' I.110, III.535, 560, IV.1-57 (1st c. AD); [[Hyginus]], ''Fables,'' 14. Argonauts Assembled (1st c. AD); [[Philostratus the Elder]], ''Images,'' ii.24 Thiodamas (AD 170 - 245); [[First Vatican Mythographer]], 49. Hercules et Hylas
−	\|-
−	~~\|[[Media:Orpheus and the Thracians wiki.ogg\|'''2. Orpheus and the Thracians,''' read by Timothy Carter, music by Steve Gorn, compiled by Andrew Calimach]]~~
−	\|-
−	\|Bibliography of reconstruction: [[Pindar]], ''Pythian Odes,'' 4.176 (462 BC); Roman marble bas-relief, copy of a Greek original from the late 5th c. (c. 420 BC); [[Aristophanes]], ''The Frogs'' 1032 (c. 400 BC); [[Phanocles]], ''Erotes e Kaloi,'' 15 (3rd c. BC); [[Apollonios Rhodios]], ''Argonautika,'' i.2 (c. 250 BC); [[Apollodorus]], ''Library and Epitome'' 1.3.2 (140 BC); [[Diodorus Siculus]], ''Histories'' I.23, I.96, III.65, IV.25 (1st c. BC); [[Conon]], ''Narrations,'' 45 (50 - 1 BC); [[Virgil]], ''Georgics,'' IV.456 (37 - 30 BC); [[Horace]], ''Odes,'' I.12; ''Ars Poetica'' 391-407 (23 BC); [[Ovid]], ''Metamorphoses'' X.1-85, XI.1-65 (AD 8); [[Seneca the Younger\|Seneca]], ''Hercules Furens'' 569 (1st c. AD); [[Hyginus]], ''Poetica Astronomica'' II.7 Lyre (2st c. AD); [[Pausanias (geographer)\|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece,'' 2.30.2, 9.30.4, 10.7.2 (143 - 176 AD); Anonymous, ''The Clementine Homilies,'' Homily V Chapter XV.-Unnatural Lusts (c. 400 AD); Anonymous, ''Orphic Argonautica'' (5th c. AD); [[Stobaeus]], ''Anthologium'' (c. 450 AD); [[Second Vatican Mythographer]], 44. Orpheus
−	\|-
−	\|}