Argonautics. Rhodes A.

The poem “Argonautics”, which is based on the famous myth of the Golden Rune, is considered one of the pillars of epic literature of antiquity along with the Iliad and Odyssey.

We know many myths about the exploits of individual heroes, but only four times they converged along with different ends of the country - and for the first time the greatest heroes of Hellas gathered on the Argo ship. Under the leadership of Jason, a descendant of Titan Prometheus, the Argonauts, among whom were the twins of Dioscuri - Castor and Polydevk, Hercules, already famous for his exploits, the legendary singer Orpheus, the beautiful Gilas, the squire Heracles, Zet and Kalaid, the winged sons of the god of the northern wind of Borea, are sent to the Borea, go to The shores of the distant Colchis to return the sacred golden rune and the kingdom of Yason. Their path lay through three seas, a lot of barriers met in the way, and in the final an impossible test was expected from King Eet, which only the spell of the beautiful sorceress of Medea, the daughter of the king,