Resumo de Jason And The Argonauts

Apollonius of Rhodes? Jason and the ArgonautsThe story was written much later than Homer?s Iliad and Odyssey, but the story takes place much earlier. This is a Penguin 60, an excerpt from classic literature, in this case Apollonoius? Argonautica (means Voyage of Argo).A group of heroes in search of a golden fleece (probably just the story of getting a sable pelt, just as Hercules? "golden apples of the sun" were probably just oranges) of a magical ram fit out a ship. The sail forth and have many adventures that test them all and kill some of them. This was typical fare in adventure stories in Greece, when people went beyond their world into the wild unknown, and the Black Sea in 1200 BC was the wild unknown to people on the Greek islands and mainland.Note that, although Hercules is present, he?s not in command. Jason has organized the whole expedition and Hercules rightly insists that the person who made the whole event possible should lead it. Jason, too, is an example: the organizer does not grasp at power.In another incident, one man swears by his spear, which he says is greater than the head god himself! This is the difference in pagan gods and real gods-human beings can challenge pagan gods and sometimes get away with it, since the pagan gods behave like human ones-they fight, steal each other?s wives, insult each other, and are by no means ultimate. They?re obviously human beings souped up by men?s imagination into gods.Finally, a cosmological point: the book refers to a time when the whole world, including earth and sky, were one. The Bible says the same thing-during that chapter, God separates light from darkness, sky from water, earth from water, seasons from each other, plants, fish, birds and animals into various kinds, and so on. But in the beginning, when, as Kipling would say, "the world was so new-and-all," things really were one.Again, if you read the excerpt, you?ll just want to read the whole story, so get Voyage of Argo as a whole instead of the excerpt if you can. Of course, if the full book isn?t available where you are, by all means read an excerpt of it. Also helping you is the fact that excerpts from this book are in some Indian schoolbooks, so you may have read a children?s version of the story already.

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