Pelias intended to kill the baby at once, but Alcimede summoned her kinswomen to weep over him as if he were stillborn. Aeson married Alcimede, who bore him a son named Jason. Instead, Pelias kept Aeson prisoner and forced him to renounce his inheritance. Pelias put to death every prominent descendant of Aeolus he could, but spared Aeson because of the pleas of their mother Tyro. Because of this unlawful act, an oracle warned him that a descendant of Aeolus would seek revenge. Pelias, king of Iolcos, stops on the steps of a temple as he recognises young Jason by his missing sandal Roman fresco from Pompeii, 1st century AD.Īfter the death of King Cretheus, the Aeolian Pelias usurped the throne from his half-brother Aeson and became king of Iolcus in Thessaly (near the modern city of Volos).
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