Iolcus
place · 4 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
famous Iolcus
in the texts
Theogony
The city to which Jason returns with Medea after his labors.
But when the son of Aeson had finished them, he came to Iolcus after long toil bringing the coy-eyed girl with him on his swift ship, and made her his buxom wife.
Isthmean
Thessalian city on whose plain Peleus, deemed the most pious of mortals, dwells.
My counsel is to bestow this god-granted honor of marriage on Peleus son of Aeacus, who is said to be the most pious man living on the plain of Iolcus.
Nemean
City in Thessaly conquered by Peleus, ruled by Acastus.
Peleus turned a warlike hand against Iolcus and gave it in subjection to the Haemones after encountering the crafty arts of Acastus’ wife Hippolyte.
Among old examples of excellence is king Peleus, who rejoiced when he cut a matchless spear, and who alone, without an army, captured Iolcus, and caught the sea-nymph Thetis after many struggles.
Pythian
The Thessalian city ruled by Pelias, Jason's homeland and the starting point of the Argonautic expedition.
When the choicest seamen came down to Iolcus, Jason reviewed and praised them all;
to be on careful guard in every way against a man with one sandal, whenever he should come from the homesteads in the steep mountains to the sunny land of famous Iolcus, whether he be stranger or citizen.