Medea escape

The Extant Odes of Pindar primary

Jason performs Aietes’ tasks with the plough of adamant and fire-breathing oxen, learns where Phrixos’ knife and Golden Fleece are, and kills the speckled dragon to escape with Medea to later sow the seed of Euphemos’ line.

of the tasks her father set, and mixing drugs with oil gave him for his anointment antidotes of cruel pain, and they vowed to be joined together in sweet wedlock. But when Aietes had set in the midst a plough of adamant, and oxen that from tawny jaws breathed flame of blazing fire, and with bronze hoofs smote the earth in alternate steps, and had led them and yoked them single-handed, he marked out in a line straigh…