Greek Heroes from Classical/Greco-Roman mythology. - Perseus and Medusa. - Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - Jason, Medea and the Golden Fleece. - The Ram with the Golden Fleece. - Chiron, Castor and Pollux, Talos the Giant Guard of Crete, Symplegades, Harpies - The 1963 film Jason and The Argonauts

1. CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY

2. GRECO-ROMAN HEROES

3. PERSEUS

5. - Danae and Zeus, the parents of Perseus
- Prophecy about Acrisius, king of Argos
- Dictys the fisherman who gave refuge to them
- Polydectes desires Danae
- Challenges Perseus to bring back the head of Medusa
- Gifts from the Olympians - shoes, helmet, shield
- Andromeda
- Turns enemies into stone
- Prophecy is fulfilled

6. MEDUSA

8. Percy Jackson & The Lightning
Thief (2011)

9. JASON, MEDEA AND THE
GOLDEN FLEECE
A.K.A
THE ADVENTURES OF
JASON AND THE
ARGONAUTS

10. • Argonautica- Alexandrian poet Apollius of Rhodes
- Travel from Iolcus to Colchis and back again
- Tyra, Jason's grandmother married Cretheus, king of Iolcus -
- AESON
- She also had a child with Poseidon who was PELIAS
- Alcimede x Aeson - Jason
- Prophecy that a man wearing one sandal would kill Pelias
- Raised by Chiron
- Helped a woman cross the river and lost a sandal
- Chiron asks him to take part in the games held by Pelias
- Pelias sees his would-be killer approach
- "What's the most dangerous quest a warrior can
undertake?" - Fetching the Golden Fleece from Colchis

11. THE RAM WITH THE
GOLDEN FLEECE
Phrixus
& Helle

12. CHIRON, HIS TEACHER

13. •King Athamas and cloud nymph Nephele had two kids
- Phrixes and Helle
- Stepmother Ino troubles them and makes people
believe the kids have to be sacrificed to the Gods
- Their celestial mother sends them a magic flying ram
to escape and go to Colchis
- Helle falls down - Hellespont
- Phrixes sacrifices the ram to Zeus (constellation
Aries) and presents the golden fleece to the local king
AEETES
The Ram With Golden Fleece

15. •The Many Adventures of the Argonauts
- Jason accompanied by Heracles, his armor bearer
Hylas, Peleus, father of Achilles, Orpheus, Castor and
Pollux
- Argo builds the ship
- Athena helps with gives them sacred, prophetic
wood - so the ship also becomes prophetic
- Orpheus and his music helps the ship set sail

16. •Hylas goes missing and Hercules abandons the group
to look for him, going back to Greece in the end
- In Bebryces, king Amycus challenges Castor and
Pollux in a deadly boxing match
- Brothers of Helen of Troy, children of Leda sired by
different fathers
- Leda and the swan
- Immortal Pollux defeats Amycus
- Zeus takes him to Mount Olympus – share
immortality, becoming constellation Gemini

17. CASTOR & POLLUX

18. •Phineus & the Harpies
- Symplegades
- Aeetes gives them 3 missions - fire bulls, demon
warriors & sleeping serpent
- Medea, the witch helps them
- Fleeing Colchis
- Apsyrtus, brother of Medea
- Presenting Pelias with the fleece
- Medea and her powers of resurrection
- Death of Pelias at the hands of Medea

19. PHINEUS & THE HARPIES

20. SYMPLEGADES :
THE CLASHING ROCKS

21. •Driven out of the city to Corinth
Deprived of being king and queen
Marrying Creusa to become king
Wedding gift
Kills her own children & flies into the sun on a chariot
drawn by flying serpents
Homeless, childless, wifeless Jason
Prow of the ship falls on him and crushes him to death
as he recounts and regrets the past

22. TALOS, THE GIANT GUARD OF
CRETE

23. The 1963 Film