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For the order of chivalry, see Order of the Golden Fleece.
In Greek mythology, the ram with the Golden Fleece (Okros Satsmisi in Georgian) was given to Nephele of Thessaly by Hermes for her to transport her children, Helle and Phrixus, away from Ino. The ram flew eastwards and while Helle fell into the sea (at the point named Hellespont) Phrixus was carried to Colchis (Georgian name of the Kingdom of Colchis is Kolkheti, territory of modern West Georgia). Phrixus sacrificed the ram to Zeus and presented its fleece to the King of Colchis, Aeetes (Ayeti in Georgian).
The legend of the Argonauts relates that once upon a time in Aea- Colchis there ruled the mighty King Aeetes, son of HeliosThis article is about Greek mythology. For other uses of Helios, see Helios (disambiguation). In earlier Greek mythology, the sun was personified as a deity called Helios ( Greek for "the sun"), whom Homer equates with the sun titan Hyperion. Helios was s and father of MedeaIn Greek mythology Medea was the daughter of King Aeetes (Georgian Ayeti of Colchis (Georgian Kolkheti now a territory of modern Georgia) and niece of Circe, and later wife to Jason. In Greek eyes she was a witch or sorceress; to an archaeologist her powe. Alongside with other numerous riches he possessed the Golden Fleece - the skin of a sheep with golden fleece. JasonThis article is about the Greek mythological hero Jason. For other Jasons, see Jason (disambiguation). Gustave Moreau's Jason Jason "" in Greek, is a hero of Greek mythology. His father was Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcus. His real name was Diomedes an and the Argonauts sailed from Iolcus on the ship " ArgoThe Argo was the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed from Iolcus to retrieve the Golden Fleece. The Argo was built by Argus, son of Phrixus. The Argo had the gifts of speech and prophecy because it was made of oak wood from the oracle at Dodona." and tried to take the fleece from Colchis to enable Jason to claim his inheritance. Overcoming many hazards, they eventually recovered the fleece with the help of Medea, who married Jason.
Ancient authors ( Palephatus , Dionysius of Miletus , StraboStrabo ("squinty") was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. The father of Pompey was called " Pompeius Strabo. A native of Sicily so clear sighted that he could see things at great distance as if they were nearby, AppianAppian (Gr. Alpha;ππιανο&sigmaf , of Alexandria, Roman historian, lived during the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian and Antoninus. He tells us that, after having filled the chief offices in native place, he repaired to Rome, where he and others) give a different interpretation of the Golden Fleece. Evidently, by this notion we should mean a whole complex of cultural achievements of ancient tribes and mainly sheep-breeding which was widespread among the ancient west-Georgian tribe of the Tibareni (Tibarenoi in Greek) and highly developed metallurgy among the other ancient west-Georgian (Colchian) tribe of the Chalybes (Khalib, see Khaldi). The ancient Greeks considered the Chalybes to be "the inventors of iron". Materials of material culture discovered in Georgia dating back to the 3rd- 2nd millennia BC speak of the high level of development of metal processing, gold in particular, thus corroborating the reality of the historic basis of the myth of the Golden Fleece.
