Golden fleece.art

Pindar employed the quest for the Golden Fleece in his Fourth Pythian Ode (written in 462 BC), though the fleece is not in the foreground. When Aeetes challenges Jason to yoke the fire-breathing bulls, the fleece is the prize: "Let the King do this, the captain of the ship! Let him do this, I say, and have for his own the immortal coverlet, the fleece, glowing with matted skeins of gold".[9] in pindar the firery bulls represent the authority and power that must be surmounted, the texters. to accomplish the success of capturing the fleece as a gift. it is teh kings gift and the fruit of the tree of its people, thus one becomes immortal by it as a cavelier, the skin is gold as is the golden fruit like the apple of myth. In later versions of the story, the ram is said to have been the offspring of the sea god Poseidon and Themisto (less often, Nephele or Theophane). The classic telling is the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes, composed in mid-third century BC Alexandria, recasting early sources that have not survived. Another, much less-known Argonautica, using the same body of myth, was composed in Latin by Valerius Flaccus during the time of Vespasian. the gift of the fleece has been said to have been sired by diferent godesses that are part of the parthenon of those who by ritual of passage formed it into the peoples and ways it represents.it include the appoloneans of rhodota the goddess of ancient cyprus, one from ancient athens, one of the thracans. many renditions of teh tale exist including latin ones. Where the written sources fail, through accidents of history, sometimes the continuity of a mythic tradition can be found among the vase-painters. The story of the Golden Fleece appeard to have little resonance for Athenians of the Classic age, for only two representations of it on Attic-painted wares of the fifth century have been identified: a krater at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a kylix in the Vatican collections.[10] In the kylix painted by Douris, ca 480-470, Jason is being disgorged from the mouth of the dragon, a detail that does not fit easily into the literary sources; behind the dragon, the fleece hangs from an apple tree. Jason's helper in the Athenian vase-paintings is not Medea— who had a history in Athens as the opponent of Theseus— but Athena. the tale also immerges on vase paintings amongst other art, on the vatacan kylix the fleece is seen hanging on the tree of life with the dragon keeper around it, here the bull is seen as a dragon as triumphing over the bull like getting past the dragon is how one gets to the tree of life and to the fruits represented by the fleece.