The Argonautica

Jason comes striding from a winter river with one sandal missing—and King Pelias sees the prophecy of his own doom walking into the banquet hall.

In a Greece where gods steer mortal lives, an old oracle has warned Pelias that a man wearing only one sandal will bring about his death. Jason has arrived, and the king answers not with open violence but with a voyage designed to keep him far from home: a quest for the Golden Fleece in distant Colchis. Soon the Argo bears a company of heroes, from Orpheus, whose music can move rocks, to Heracles, whose strength is legend. Beyond the familiar shore lie strange lands, perilous seas and a task set by a king who expects Jason not to return. Can the crew outwit the fate Pelias has set in motion?

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