CROWELL'S HANDBOOK OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY1970 |
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... Aeëtes . A king of Colchis . Aeëtes , a son of Helius , the sun - god , and Perse or Perseïs , a daughter of Oceanus , was the brother of Circe and Pasiphaë . He was a ruthless king of a barbarian race , the Colchians , who lived at the ...
... Aeëtes . A king of Colchis . Aeëtes , a son of Helius , the sun - god , and Perse or Perseïs , a daughter of Oceanus , was the brother of Circe and Pasiphaë . He was a ruthless king of a barbarian race , the Colchians , who lived at the ...
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... Aeëtes was a powerful and ruthless king who would be very unlikely to allow the Greeks to carry away the fleece . Even if he could be persuaded , the dragon that guarded it - the offspring of Ge by the blood of Typhaon - could not be ...
... Aeëtes was a powerful and ruthless king who would be very unlikely to allow the Greeks to carry away the fleece . Even if he could be persuaded , the dragon that guarded it - the offspring of Ge by the blood of Typhaon - could not be ...
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... Aeëtes had , more- over , been told by an oracle that he would die when strangers tried to carry off the golden fleece , and that he planned to offer the Argonauts as a sacrifice in order to confirm the Colchian reputation for cruelty ...
... Aeëtes had , more- over , been told by an oracle that he would die when strangers tried to carry off the golden fleece , and that he planned to offer the Argonauts as a sacrifice in order to confirm the Colchian reputation for cruelty ...
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