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  Echion (Argonaut) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
In (The mythology of the ancient Greeks) Greek mythology, Echion was one of the ((Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason on the Argo in search of the Golden Fleece) Argonauts.
He was a (A person with great powers and abilities) demigod, the son of ((Greek mythology) messenger and herald of the gods; god of commerce and cunning and invention and theft; identified with Roman Mercury) Hermes and the mortal woman (additional info and facts about Antianeira) Antianeira.
He married (Tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber) Agave and was the father of (additional info and facts about Pentheus) Pentheus.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ec/echion_(argonaut)1.htm   (126 words)

  
 Articles - Argonauts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest for the Golden Fleece.
The number of Argonauts varies but usually totals between 40 and 55 – traditional versions of the story place their number at 50.
Some have hypothesised that the legend of the Golden Fleece was based on a practice of the Black Sea tribes of placing a lamb's fleece at the bottom of a stream to entrap particles of gold being washed down from upstream.
www.divxa.com /articles/Argonauts   (431 words)

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