Iason, Jason The son of Aeson, leader of the Argonauts, and hero of the adventure of the Golden Fleece. The fleece is represented in the sky by the constellation and zodiacal sign of Aries, the Ram. In ancient times it contained the point of the vernal equinox (The First Point of Aries) that has since moved by precession into Pisces. Bk VII:1-73. Reaches Colchis and the court of King Aeetes. Bk VII:74-99. Accepts Medea’s help and promises her marriage. Bk VII:100-158. Completes the tasks and wins the Golden Fleece, and marries Medea, before returning to Iolchos. Bk VII:159-178. He asks Medea to lengthen his father’s life. Bk VII:350-403. He acquires the throne of Corinth, and marries a new bride Glauce. Medea in revenge for his disloyalty to her sends Glauce a wedding gift of a golden crown and white robe, that burst into flames when she puts them on, and consume her and the palace. Medea then kills her own sons by Jason, and flees his wrath. Bk VIII:260-328. He is present at the Calydonian Boar Hunt. Bk VIII:329-375. He throws his spear at the boar, but overshoots. Bk VIII:376-424. He wounds a hound by accident. Icarus (1) The son of Daedalus for whom his father fashioned wings of wax and feathers like his own in order to escape from Crete. Flying too near the sun, despite being warned, the wax melts and he drowns in the Icarian Sea, and is buried on the island of Icaria. (See W H Auden’s poem ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’ referring to Brueghel’s painting, Icarus, in Brussels) Bk VIII:183-235. Icarus (2), =Icarius The father of Erigone. Bk X:431-502. Icelos The son of Somnus (Sleep), and a god of dreams. Bk XI:573-649. He takes the shape of creatures. Ida One Mount Ida is near Troy. There is a second Mount Ida on Crete. Bk II:201-226. Bk IV:274-316. Hermaphroditus is raised there. Bk VII:350-403. Liber hides his son’s theft of a bullock by changing the animal to a stag. Bk X:1-85. Olenus and Lethaea are turned to stones there. Bk XI:749-795. Birthplace of Trojan Aesacus. Bk XII:429-535. The scene of Nestor’s tale at Troy. Bk XIII:1-122. The mountain near Troy. Bk XIV:527-565. Trojan Ida is sacred to Cybele. Aeneas’s ship timbers were felled there. |
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