The Argonauts

Our friendly team of Visitor Experience Assistants are always on hand to help with any queries. This is our most accessible exhibition yet with sensory backpacks, ear defenders, handling tables and the use of Makaton. Look out for the floor stickers guiding you to the Jason and his argonauts exhibition.

Jason and the Argonauts

Pausanias, in his first-century guidebook to Greece, describes a shrine to the murdered children next to a temple to Hera, queen of gods, at Corinth. King Aietes organises a banquet, but confides to Medea that he will kill Jason and the Argonauts rather than surrender the Golden Fleece. From here the Argonauts flee home, encountering further epic adventures. The ancient storytellers give several versions of the route Jason took Argonauts back to Greece, reflecting changes in Greek ideas about the geography of the world. It is not known at what date the Greeks borrowed it, but it very possibly happened in the ninth or eighth century BC. This was the time when many themes were taken from the east and incorporated into Greek poetry.

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If the van had drawn up outside a ballroom on Pluto, it mightn’t have seemed all that odd. The exhibition is pay what you decide – your support is greatly appreciated and helps us bring exciting exhibitions to life. You can read reflections written by Welly O’Brien and Jemima Hoadley on our journal here.

Alcon his father sent him forth; yet no other sons had he to care for his old age and livelihood. But him, his well-beloved and only son, he sent forth that amid bold heroes he might shine conspicuous. But Theseus, who surpassed all the sons of Erechtheus, an unseen bond kept beneath the land of Taenarus, for he had followed that path with Peirithous; assuredly both would have lightened for all the fulfilment of their toil.

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But he was left in the city to care for Aleus now growing old, while he gave his son to join his brothers. Antaeus went clad in the skin of a Maenalian bear, and wielding in his right hand a huge two-edged battleaxe. For his armour his grandsire had hidden in the house’s innermost recess, to see if he might by some means still stay his departure. Idmon came last of all them that dwelt at Argos, for though he had learnt his own fate by augury, he came, that the people might not grudge him fair renown.