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Jason, a nice enough guy, was promised the kingdom of Iolcus if he produced the Golden Fleece, a magical ram's skin bestowing all kinds of good luck.
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This she did just before Jason celebrated the funeral games of Pelias on the seashore at Iolcus; and no sooner had Glaucus yoked the mares to his chariot pole than they bolted, overthrew the chariot, dragged him along the ground entangled in the reins, for the whole length of the stadium, and then ate him alive.
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Jason, a nice enough guy, was promised the kingdom of Iolcus if he produced the Golden Fleece, a magical ram's skin bestowing all kinds of good luck.
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And in it stands Iolcus, my city, and in it many others, where they have not so much as heard the name of the Aeaean isle; yet there is a story that Minyas starting thence,
The Argonautica 2008
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Come now, Erato, stand by my side, and say next how Jason brought back the fleece to Iolcus aided by the love of Medea.
The Argonautica 2008
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For thus Hera devised it, that Aeaean Medea might come to Iolcus for a bane to
The Argonautica 2008
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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.
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Anthe and the city of the Myrmidons, and famous Iolcus, and Arne, and Helice: and much people were gathered doing honour to Ceyx, the friend of the blessed gods.
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Soon you came to Iolcus and set foot on Cenaeum in Euboea, famed for ships: you stood in the
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Demetrius had given his name, peopled from the inhabitants of the small villages of Iolcus.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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