079 The Quest for the Golden Fleece- The assembling of the crew and the construction of the Argo

Welcome back to Moments in Greek Mythology, I'm doing a multipart series on the story of Jason and the Argonauts who went searching for the fabled Golden Fleece. (Most of the story comes from the famous poet Apollonius of Rhodes in his epic the "Argonautica") Here's what you've missed so far.

First post was a prologue of the origin of the Golden Fleece and why it ended up in Colchis. Then on last week's blog I talked about the story of how the power hungry Pelias took over his brother's throne and the prophecy of the young man with the one sandal. Today's blog looks at the assembling of the famous Argonauts and the construction of the boat that gave them their name, The Argo.

It's like the Avengers of Greek Mythology

078 The Quest for the Golden Fleece- Jason and the Prophecy of the One Sandal

Now that we know how the Golden Fleece got to its far away location in the Modern Day Caucasus region, this time we will get why a quest was sent for it and the backstory of Jason before meeting a strange old woman at a river. So really this is just more exposition and build up to this epic adventure.

God help you miss that target again or you are going to have to sleep outside for a week!

077 Quest for the Golden Fleece- Prologue

Well I think it is time to begin another epic series and this time I want to do a grand adventure with an all star cast. This of course is the quest for the Golden Fleece as told in the epic poem The Argonautica. Before we begin this mammoth journey, let us find out what exactly was the golden fleece and why it was located in such a remote place on the Earth.

Better than that Ixion fellow

076 Semele gets gets burned by Zeus

Now as for today's blog, it is once again a case of me looking at the past blog and realizing, "Oops I dun goofed, herp a derp!" Because for some reason I like to start one story and then doing the next story about something that could have helped you the audience see the bigger picture for the story before. (I will not make this mistake in my attempts to make this blog into a video series, but that is a discuss for a later time)

Anyway, today's story is the origin of our dear old friend Dionysus. This is another one of those classic Zeus sees woman, Zeus rapes woman, Hera gets pissed off, Hera screws up said woman's life, and pop we got a new god crawling around. But believe me there is a disturbing example of body horror in this story and another TV trope. (but I'm not going to ruin the surprise for those who never heard this story)  

It would not be wise to diss his hair style, unless you want a lightning bolt straight up your ass

075 Dionysus vs his cousin

Today's story is not a story of love, but a story of hate and revenge. (That's the Greek Mythology we know and love!) Our hero is once again the jolly and adventerous god of the vine, Dionysus, who tries to return back to his birthplace in the city of Thebes. The villain of this story is the King of Thebes and cousin of Dionysus, Pentheus, but he was not the party lover like Dionysus.

This is a story of not paying attention to what seers tell you and the conflict between the excess of Dionysus and the control freak nature of Pentheus. (Seeing as Dionysus is a god and Pentheus is a mere mortal, you can kind of guess who wins this)

In the left corner, weighing at two hundred and twenty pounds, he is the ultimate party boy, DIONYSUS!!!!