Argonauts
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The Argonauts were a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Their name comes from their ship, Ar
Gathering of the Argonauts, Attic red-figure krater, 460–450 BC (Louvre G 341)
Pelias recognises young Jason by his missing sandal (fresco from Pompeii, 1st-century AD)
Escape of the Argonauts from Colchis (c. 1500–1530), painting by Lorenzo Costa
Hylas and the nymphs, Gallo-Roman mosaic (3rd century)
Laertes (father of Odysseus)
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In Greek mythology, Laertes was the king of the Cephallenians, an ethnic group who lived both on the Ionian Islands and on the mainland. He presumably inherited the kingdom from his father Arcesius an
Argonauts
…son of Eurytus and Antiope Iphitos ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6 Phocis or Peloponnesse son of Naubolus or Hippasus Jason ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 7 Iolcus son of Aeson and Alcimede Laërtes ✓ 3 Cephalonia son of Arcesius and Chalcomedusa, father of Odysseus Laocoon ✓ ✓ 3 Calydon son of Porthaon and half-brother of Oeneus; tutor of Meleager…
Fragment of a Roman sarcophagus with the reunion of Odysseus and Laertes, 150s AD, Museo Barracco.
Odysseus meets his father Laertes on his return to Ithaca (Theodoor van Thulden, 1600)