Hello this is let's talk about myths baby and I am your host live back here with another

episode of my reading of the arganautica I've said it before but I honestly love that I get to

interspersed the conversation episodes with these ones as well I feel like it's best for everyone

because you kind of get a bit of everything and also you know sometimes it's a little bit easier for

me to just read out all of this nonsense and provide it to you plus it's fun and who doesn't

love to hate Jason which leads us directly into we are about to start book three of the arganautica

which means that where we left left our intrepid organauts they had finally after so many trials

and tribulations reached culcus where the king is i.e. tease and the princess is madaya

so ready for this part I mean I'm sure it's gonna make Jason look good and what is there

to do about that but we all know the truth it is all about madaya one quick note before we begin

this chapter refers to aphrodite a lot as kipris she is at the kipprian goddess or the kitharian

goddess kipris being cypress all of these things it just means that that's often what she is called

and in this case she is exclusively called kipris it seems so if you hear that word or that name

and you think who the hell is that it's aphrodite

this is the arganautica by apolonius translated by rc ceton book three part one

come now erato stand by my side and say next how Jason brought back the fleece to eocus

aided by the love of madaya for thou sharest the power of kipris and by thy love cares

thus charm on wedded maidens wherefort the two is attached a name that tells of love thus the

heroes unobserved were waiting an ambush amid the thick read beds but heira and ethena took

note of them and apart from Zeus and the other immortals entered a chamber and took council there

and heira first made trial of ethena do thou now first daughter of Zeus give advice what must be

done wilt thou devise some scheme whereby they may seize the golden fleece of aiti's and bear it

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