The Golden Fleece
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
golden fleece · the golden fleece of the ram
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
The prized fleece sought by Jason and the Argonauts.
For if those think they attain something now who have seen the mouth of the Pontus and those straits through which passed the ship named Argo, "because chosen Argive men sailed in her to seek the golden fleece of the ram," or those who have seen those straits of Ocean "where the ravening wave divides Europe and Libya" — what spectacle, pray, do we think it will be, when it shall be permitted to be …
Medea
The prize of the Argonauts' quest, guarded by a dragon Medea slew to help Jason obtain it.
Yea, and I slew the dragon which guarded the golden fleece, keeping sleepless watch o’er it with many a wreathed coil, and I raised for thee a beacon of deliver arice.
would to Heaven the good ship Argo ne’er had sped its course to the Colchian land through the misty blue Symplegades, nor ever in the glens of Pelion the pine been felled to furnish with oars the chieftain’s hands, who went to fetch the golden fleece for Pelias;