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  Aeson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Greek mythology, Aeson (or Aison) was the son of Tyro and Cretheus, father of Jason and Promachus.
Aeson sent Jason to Chiron to be educated while Pelias, paranoid that he would be overthrown, was warned by an oracle to beware a man wearing one sandal.
She slit Aeson's throat, then put his corpse in a pot and Aeson came to life as a young man. She then told Pelias' daughters she would do the same for their father.
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 Jason, Greek Mythology Link.
Jason's father Aeson was himself the son of Cretheus 1, the founder of Iolcus, a city in Thessaly on the coast of the Gulf of Pagasae.
Aeson was son of Cretheus 1, son of Aeolus 1.
It is said that Aeson, threatened to death by Pelias 1, drank freely of a bull's blood and died.
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 Aeson - Acadine Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Aeson was the son of Cretheus and father of Jason.
He surrendered the throne of Iolchus to his brother Pelias on condition that the latter should hold it only as regent until such time as Jason was able to reign him­self.
Some accounts relate that Aeson, saddened by the absence of his son, took his own life; but others state that he lived to receive the returning Argonauts, and obtained a new lease of life from Jason's wife, the sorceress Medea.
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 Fictionwise eBooks: Jason and the Golden Fleece: Tales of the Argonauts by Padraic Colum
With his wife, Alcimide, and his infant son, Aeson went from the city, and in a village that was at a distance from Iolcus he found a hidden house and went to dwell in it.
Aeson thought of such things in his hidden house, and he pondered on ways to have his son reared away from Iolcus and the dread and the power of King Pelias.
Aeson was content thereafter although he was lonely and although his wife was lonely in their childlessness.
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 Medea and Aeson
Then she directed that AESON should be led forth, and having thrown him into a deep sleep by a charm, had him laid on a bed of herbs, like one dead.
As soon as he had completely imbibed them, his hair and beard laid by their whiteness and assumed the flness of youth; his paleness and emaciation were gone; his veins were full of blood, his limbs of vigor and robustness.
AESON is amazed at himself, and remembers that such as he now is he was in his youthful days, forty years before.
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 Constellation Puppis
Aeson was a peaceful man and did not wish to bring a war to the city-state and made his brother the ruler of the Boeotia.
Aeson had a son named Jason and Pelias ordered his soldiers to seize and kill the boy.
Aeson was very glad to see his son again.
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 Jason - LitWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He is the son of Aeson and Alcimede (aka Polymede).
Aeson was supposed to become the King of Iolcus when his father died, but his half-brother, Pelias, took the throne.
Fearing for Jason's safety Aeson told Pelias that Jason had been born dead, and then sent Jason to be raised by Charon, the wise Centaur, on Mount Pelion (March 223).
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 The Internet Classics Archive | The Argonautica by Apollonius
Aeson too, ill-fated man! Surely better had it been for him, if he were lying beneath the earth, enveloped in his shroud, still unconscious of bitter toils.
Thereupon Aeson's son started to go to the royal home of Hypsipyle; and the rest went each his way as chance took them, all but Heracles; for he of his own will was left behind by the ship and a few chosen comrades with him.
But Aeson's son leapt upon him as he turned to face him, and smote him in the middle of the breast, and the bone was shattered round the spear; he rolled forward in the sand and filled up the measure of his fate.
classics.mit.edu /Apollonius/argon.1.i.html   (10575 words)

  
 Baby Name Aeson - Origin and Meaning of Aeson
Search for names similar to Aeson starting with Ae- or ending with -on, -son, -eson.
Aeson is an uncommon male first name as it was not ranked for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
Aeson is an uncommon surname as it was not ranked for people of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.
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 MSN Encarta - Jason
Jason, in Greek mythology, son of Aeson, a king in Greece.
Aeson's throne had been taken away from him by his half-brother Pelias, and Jason, the rightful heir to the throne, had been sent away as a child for his own protection.
When the furious Jason determined to kill her, she escaped in a chariot drawn by dragons.
uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572822/Jason.html   (459 words)

  
 Pelias
Aeson married and had children while in the dungeon.
Aeson and his wife sent Jason to Centaur Chiron on Mount Pelion.
Pelias thought that the Argo had sunk so he allowed heart broken Aeson to to kill himself by drinking poison.
www.pantheon.org /articles/p/pelias.html   (528 words)

  
 page2summer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Aeson was determined to get this, but he looked doubtfully at the dragon.
It was red and burning but Aeson saw one small patch of blue, which was cold.
Aeson put on the sandals and flew back home to his mother and father.
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 GREEK MYTHOLOGY: ARGONAUTS (TEXT)
Fearing that he might lose his newborn son Jason as well, Aeson announced that his boy was dead, and then secretly sent him to Mt.
Pelias asked the stranger who he was, and Jason bravely answered that he was the son of Aeson, and that he came back to Iolcos to claim the throne from his uncle.
Aeson, who was there as well, recognized and welcomed his son.
www.milica.com.au /greek_myths/legends/argo1_t.htm   (3428 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Aeson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
FACTOID # 17: Senior gentlemen might consider a trip to Russia, where there are two women over 65 for every man.
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.
In Greek mythology, Argo was the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts sailed from Iolcus to retrieve the Golden Fleece.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Aeson   (804 words)

  
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And another thing Aeson bade me say to thee, O my lord Chiron: not presumptuous is he, but he knows that this child has the regard of the immortal Goddess Hera, the wife of Zeus." Chiron held Aeson's son in his arms, and the little child put hands into his great beard.
He heard Pelias speak to Aeson, his father, telling him that he was old and that he was weary of ruling; that he longed to make friends, and that he would let no enmity now be between him and his brother.
Cretheus, the father of Aeson, and Pelias, was of the race of Aeolus, and of the race of Aeolus, too, was Athamas, the king who ruled in Thebes at the same time that Cretheus ruled in Iolcus.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext00/fleec10.txt   (24476 words)

  
 Argonauts
Hera planned to avenge the defilement of her altar, through Pelias' nephew, Jason, son of Aeson.
Aeson was the son of Cretheus and Tyro, and the brother of Amythaon and Pheres.
Aeson's wife had just bore a son (Jason), but died in grief over her Aeson imprisonment.
www.timelessmyths.com /classical/argonauts.html   (7537 words)

  
 Pelias
Tyro was married to Cretheus (with whom she had one son, Aeson) but loved Enipeus, a river god.
One day, Poseidon, filled with lust for Tyro, disguised himself as Enipeus and from their union was born Pelias and Neleus, twin boys.
Aeson sent Jason to Chiron the centaur, on Mt. Pelion, to be educated while Pelias, paranoid that he would be overthrown, was warned by an oracle to beware a man wearing one sandal.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Pelias.html   (523 words)

  
 Pelias 1, Greek Mythology Link.
Now Zeus, tired of Salmoneus' arrogance struck him with a thunderbolt, and so Tyro was brought up by her uncle Cretheus 1, king of Iolcus (the city in Thessaly on the coast of the Gulf of Pagasae).
Yet it could be argued that Jason was the son of Pelias 1's half brother Aeson, and therefore well known to him.
According to some, Aeson asked to be allowed to take his own life, and his request being granted, he drank of a bull's blood and died.
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 Apolyton Civilization Forums > Miscellaneous > Archive > Civ3-Strategy-Archive > So very cold (of the map ...
Aeson: I can't imagine how anybody could win (or even get halfway into the game at all) from this position...
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Aeson, even if you don't win this game, my hat is off to you man, just for your determination.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 46 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
50), Pelias compelled Aeson to kill himself by drinking ox's blood, for he had received intelligence that Jason and his companions had perished in their expedition.
163, 250, andc.), Aeson survived the return of the Argonauts, and was made young again by Medeia.
Jason as the son of Aeson is called Aesonides.
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 Aeson Sources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Iphiclus was the uncle of Jason; Aeson was married to Alcimede, daughter of Phylacus; Alcimede was the mother of Jason and the sister of Iphiclus;
Neleus and Pelias, sons of Poseidon by Tyro, daughter of Salmoneus; Aeson, Pheres, and Amythaon, sons of Tyro by her husband Cretheus;
Aeson, Pheres, and Amythaon, sons of Tyro by Cretheus;
www.csulb.edu /~dbouvier/SourceFiles/i660Sources.htm   (107 words)

  
 Metamorphoses (Kline) 7, the Ovid Collection, Univ. of Virginia E-Text Center
But Aeson is absent from the rejoicing, now near death, and weary with the long years.
Aeson’s exhausted body to be carried into the air, and freeing him to deep sleep with her spells, she stretched him out like a corpse on a bed of herbs.
Aeson marvelled, recalling that this was his self of forty years ago.
etext.lib.virginia.edu /latin/ovid/trans/Metamorph7.htm   (8379 words)

  
 Sea Rover Argonaughts
Some say Pelias deposed of Aeson, and usurped his throne, others say that Aeson had grown tired of his responsibilities and had voluntarily relinquished his rule to Pelias, under the condition that he in turn surrender the throne to Aeson's son Jason once the boy came of age.
Pelias was undoubtedly distressed when Jason arrived at his court and announced that as Aeson's son he had come to claim his throne.
As Aeetes gained on the Argo, Medea killed and dismembered her brother and scattered his body parts all over the surface of the sea, so her father must then stop to gather his son's remains in order to give him a proper burial.
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 Aeson - Webled.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In Greek mythology, Aeson (or Aison) was the son of Tyro and Cretheus, father of..
...She was the mother of Jason by Aeson, whom she met in the caves below Iolcus in Thessaly.....So many then were the helpers who assembled to join the son of Aeson.
All the chiefs the.....Along with Aeson, Alcimede was forced by the usurping Pelias to commit suicide.
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 Aeson * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
There are two versions of who was Aeson’s wife and the mother of Iason (Jason):
Aeson and Alkimede (Alcimede) were the parents of Iason; and
Aeson and Polymede were the parents of Iason.
www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Aeson_1.html   (284 words)

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