Greek Myths: Jason & The Quest for the Golden Fleece (TRIH ep 605, part 4)
431 BCE · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the myth of Jason and the Argonauts and its literary afterlife, especially Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica (c. 250 BC) and its relationship to earlier storytellers like Pindar, Hesiod and Homer.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 431 BCE
- Reign of Alexander the Great (336 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)