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Jason and the Golden Fleece
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The Greeks had a name for such a nasty creature, Drakon. It comes from the word Darc, meaning to see, or to see clearly.
A female dragon was called a Draikaina, but that name never caught on because most famous names seemed to be male. The idea of a princess
being saved from a drgon by a young hero originally came from Greek legends. The Greek dragons were really the first Western
dragons. The earliest Greek dragon story is of the golden fleece. In this story, a man named Jason, with the help of a beautiful sorceress/princess named
Medea, set out on a quest for the golden fleece, which was held by King Aeets of Colchis and was guarded by a nasty-tempered hydra. Medea had made Jason
promise to marry her if she showed him how to retrieve the golden fleece from the hydra safely. She made a sleeping potion for the hydra, so that when
Jason wouldn't becaome it's dinner.
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For more information on hydras, click here.
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