Hello and welcome back to Chronicles where I'm joined once again by Stelios.

And we're going to be continuing our discussion of the voyage, the grand adventure

of Jason and his Argonauts. So there is simply so much to say that we won't spend too

much time just reviewing what's happened so far. But just to say that Jason has been sent out on this grand voyage

by his half-uncle, really, Pilias, who is king of Eilchus and who sees the throne against Jason's father, Aeson.

And Pilius has sent Jason out to go and retrieve

the golden fleece at the far edges of the known world in Colchis, which is on the eastern edge of

the Black Sea. And this is supposed to be an impossible task. It's supposed to be something that Jason is not going to survive and come back from.

A suicide mission. An absolute suicide mission. However, because the idea of going to retrieve the golden fleece was such a tantalizing prospect for glory and renown and heroic deeds.

Of course, it brought with it, when news spread that this was going to be undertaken,

some of the greatest heroes from across Hellas at this time.

We've got Polydeiches, we've got Pileus, father of Achilles, we've got Telemann, father of Ajax,

we've got Idis, we've got so many, so many characters. And so far, they have weathered a lot

of their problems because they have had with them the mightiest hero of all Heracles.

And just at the end of book one, as we were recounting at the end of the last part,

the crew very absent-mindedly leave Heracles behind on the shore when they're going up the Pontos.

Which is preposterous. How can you forget Heracles?

Yeah, the guy who's like seven foot tall and bulking. You're like, oh, I just didn't notice he hadn't boarded the ship.

But it has explained to Jason and the other Argonauts before Jason has a mutiny on his hand as the Argonauts forced him to go back for Heracles.

Actually, this is all part of divine will.

It was never Heracles fate to continue with the Argonauts to Colchis.

He already has his own destiny, which is to fulfill and complete his 12 labors.

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