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Jason would have perished if not for the King’s daughter, the sorceress . Smitten by Jason (thanks to a little divine intervention from Hera), she gave him an ointment to protect him from fire and told him how to defeat the earth-born soldiers. Finally, she used her magic to put the sleepless dragon guarding the Fleece to sleep. Jason seized the shimmering gold, and the Argo fled into the night with Medea aboard. The Long Way Home

The tale begins in Iolcus, where a young hero named arrived to claim his rightful throne from his uncle, the usurper Pelias. Pelias, wary of a prophecy about a man wearing one sandal (which Jason was), struck a bargain he thought was a death sentence: "Bring me the Golden Fleece from the distant land of Colchis, and the kingdom is yours."

The voyage was a gauntlet of mythological terrors. They stopped at the , where only women lived, and nearly forgot their quest in the arms of the locals. They fought the Harpy monsters to save a blind seer named Phineus, who in gratitude gave them the secret to surviving the Symplegades —the Clashing Rocks. These were massive cliffs that smashed together on anything attempting to pass. By releasing a dove first and timing their rowing to the split second, the Argo squeezed through, losing only a piece of its stern ornament. The Witch and the Fleece

Jason didn’t go alone. He assembled the "Avengers" of the Bronze Age—the . The roster included: Heracles (Hercules) , the strongest man alive.