Jason
in classic fable, a Greek hero; son of AEson, King of Iolchos, a city of of Æson, King of Iolchos, a city of Thessaly. Peleas having usurped the throne on the death of Æson, the youthful prince was driven from his kingdom.
Subsequently in obedience to the commands of the oracle, Jason returned to the city of Iolchos and demanded the surrender of the throne to him, its rightthis the usurper consented, if sented, if Jason would first sail across to the kingdom of Colchis, and there punish the perfidious king, had slain a mutual relative.
In revenge Medea destroyed her own children by Jason, and sent to Glauce a which burned her to death. Jason was killed soon after, by a beam falling on him from the ship Argo, as he slept one day on the shore by his beloved vessel.