Hello and welcome back to Chronicles, where today Stelios and I are going to be rounding

off our grand discussion about an even grander tale,

which is, of course, the Argonautica, the tale of Jason and the Argonauts.

Jason and the Golden Fleece, and I suppose that is appropriate, given that that is the very point

in the story that we finally come to, of course, Jason and the rest of his argonauts,

you know, his mariners aboard the Argo, the divinely created ship with the help of Argus and Athena

has managed to, you know, sail them all the way across the Aegean. They've gone up through

the Bosphorus. They've gone into the Black Sea,

and in the last part that we discussed together, of course, they finally managed to find a way

to the court of A80s at the far ends of the known world on the east of the Black Sea and the city of

Colchis. And yeah, we've obviously had a lot to say about it all. We've

had a lot to say about Jason as a leader, as a hero, and how atypical he is compared to some of the

other, you know, hermeric type of figures. And yeah, so we're coming to a head now of the

completion of the quest. Yes. And yeah, so we're coming to a head now of the completion of the quest.

Yes. And one of the things that we have to mention is that Apollonius of Rhodes has a very dense style of writing.

So this version is just 140 pages.

And it contains a multitude of events.

It's easy to forget some of them because there's just so many.

Especially when you're dealing with something like Greek mythology,

where there's an entire law and history behind every name.

And it's just so extensive.

You could spend far longer than we've been spending on it now,

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