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Area of northern Greece; source of the myth of Jason and the Argonauts. |
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| Port city in Thessaly; home of Jason. |
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| Third century B.C. author of the Argonautica; his poetry reflects the Hellenistic aesthetic of minute descriptions and complicated characters. |
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| Son of Aeson, hero of the Argonautica. |
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| King of Athamas; nearly tricked by his wife Nephelê into sacrificing his son Phrixus. |
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| Son of Athamas nearly sacrificed by his father; taken to Colchis on the Black Sea by a golden ram that appeared at the last moment. |
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| Daughter of Athamas; taken away on the back of a golden ram; she fell off into a sea which thereafter is called the "Hellespont." |
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| "Sea of Hellê"; so called because Hellê, the daughter of Athamas, fell into this body of water after having been taken away by a golden ram. |
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| Distant town on the Black Sea; kingdom of Aeëtes, who had the golden fleece Jason seeks in the Argonautica. |
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| Mother of Pelias and Neleus by Poseidon and Aeson, the father of Jason, by Cretheus |
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| King in Iolcus who imprisons his half-brother Aeson and arranges to send Jason on the supposedly hopeless quest for the golden fleece; killed by his daughters who were tricked by Medea into cutting him up into pieces. |
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| Centaur on Mount Pelion who raised Jason. |
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| Sons of the North Wind (Zetes and Calaïs); able to fly and liberate Phineus from the Harpies. |
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| King of Salmydessus and prophet; offended Zeus by being too generous with his prophecies; his torment by the Harpies was ended by Jason and his crew. |
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| "Clashing Rocks" that barred access to the Black Sea; cleared by the Argonauts with the help of Athena. |
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Daughter of King Aeëtes who helps Jason get the fleece. |
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| Son of Aeëtes and brother of Medea; joined in the pursuit of Jason and Medea after the fleece had been filched; he was either killed by Jason, or chopped by into bits which were thrown overboard piece by piece to delay the pursuit of Aeëtes. |
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| Bronze giant filled with ichor that guarded the island of Crete; overcome by Jason who drained him of the ichor. |
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| Area in Greece to the north of the western opening of the Corinthian gulf; main city is Calydon. |
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| Main city in the area of Aetolia, home of King Oeneus and location of the famous boar hunt. |
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| Mother of Meleager; in a rage over his murder of her brothers, she threw the magic log that protected him into the fire, thus killing him. |
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| Son of Oeneus and Althaea of Calydon; killed the boar that was ravaging his land, but violated the code of the hunt by giving its skin to Atalanta, whom he wished to seduce; eventually this brought about his death. |
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Speedy athlete who took part in the boar hunt at Calydon; eventually married to Melanion who overcame her in a foot race; punished for their lusty consummation of the marriage in the precinct of Zeus by being turned into lions. |
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