How did the Argonauts manage to get hold of the Golden Fleece? Detailed answer

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How did the Argonauts manage to get hold of the Golden Fleece?

Upon learning that the Argonauts had arrived for the Golden Fleece, the Colchis king Eet was furious. Wanting to destroy Jason, he suggested that he plow the field on the copper-footed fire-breathing bulls of Ares and sow it with dragon teeth, from which warriors grow.

Medea came to Jason's aid, handing him a magic potion - the juice of the roots of a plant that had grown from the blood of Prometheus. Having washed his body, spear and shield with this potion, Jason became invulnerable for one day. So he managed to subdue the bulls to his will and harness them to the plow. All day he plowed, and at night he sowed dragon teeth, from which powerful warriors immediately grew. Jason arranged a fight between them, throwing a stone into the thick of the warriors, and then finished off those who remained alive with his sword.

However, King Eet, not wanting to part with the Golden Fleece, shamelessly violated his obligation. He began to threaten that he would burn the ship "Argo", now standing in the sea opposite the city, and kill everyone who arrived on it. Then Medea took Jason and several Argonauts to the sacred grove of Ares, where the fleece was located. It was guarded by an immortal dragon coiled into a thousand rings. He was born from the blood of the monster Typhon, killed by Zeus, and was larger than the Argo ship.

Medea put the dragon to sleep with a sweet chant and magic potion, and Jason carefully removed the golden fleece that emitted radiance from the oak. Everyone immediately hurried to the "Argo" and immediately went to sea.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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Knightly tournaments were banned after the French King Henry II was mortally wounded during the tournament on July 10, 1559. The death of the king was accidental: the broken spear of his opponent, sliding along the shield, hit the golden visor and, piercing it, pierced Henry's eye. By the way, this was the first of the fulfilled prophecies of Nostradamus (1503-1566), published in his "Book of Prophecies" in 1555.

In 1556, the French Queen Catherine de Medici was shown a quatrain in which her husband, Henry II, was predicted to die during a jousting tournament, and she immediately summoned Nostradamus to Paris. The meeting was quite peaceful, Nostradamus even became a secret occult friend of the Queen.

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In Israel, for the first time, grape seeds from the Byzantine era were found. This grape was used to make "wine from the Negev" - one of the best and most famous wines in the Byzantine Empire.

The charred seeds, more than 1500 years old, were discovered during excavations in the ancient city of Halutz in the Negev, during joint research by the University of Haifa and the Israel Antiquities Authority.

"Today, European grape varieties grow in the Negev, and the Negev vine has been lost to the world. Our next task is to recreate the ancient wine, and perhaps in this way we will be able to reproduce its taste and understand what made the wine from the Negev so good," - said Haifa University professor and expedition leader Guy Bar-Oz.

Archaeologists knew about "wine from the Negev" or "wine from Gaza" - as it was called by the port from which the drink was transported to all corners of the empire - from written sources of the Byzantine period. It was believed that this wine was of the highest quality and was very expensive, but, unfortunately, not a drop of it has survived to this day, so we do not know what is the reason for its exceptional taste. Earlier, during excavations in the Negev, archaeologists discovered terraces on which grapes were grown, wineries in which wine was made, and vessels in which it was stored and exported, but grape seeds could not be found before.

Halutza, in its heyday, was the most important city in the Byzantine Negev. The stone houses of Halutsa, as elsewhere in the Negev, did not survive to this day: the buildings were dismantled into stone for many centuries. But, as often happens, the rarest finds were waiting for archaeologists in a landfill. According to the professor, the city dumps have remained virtually intact and now mark the boundaries of the ancient city. Landfills are so prominent in the area that they can be seen on satellite images, for example, using Google Earth. Pottery and coins found in the rubbish deposits show that they accumulated mainly in the sixth and seventh centuries AD, when the city was at the peak of its economic growth. Since the decline of Halutza in the middle of the seventh century, which occurred for reasons not yet entirely clear, organized waste collection ceased, perhaps the city itself was abandoned around the same time.

In the rubbish layers, the researchers found a particularly large number of fragments of ceramic vessels that were used for storage, cooking and table setting. Among them were also vessels from Gaza, in which they kept ancient wine from the Negev. Archaeologists have also found a large number of remains of biological origin: the bones of fish from the Red Sea, the remains of mollusks and crustaceans from the Mediterranean Sea.

Hundreds of tiny charred grape seeds stood out among the finds. This is the first direct evidence that grapes were grown in the Western Negev in antiquity. Finding the pits was not easy: researchers used soil sifting and flotation (washing) for the first time.

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