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Pelias was power-hungry and he wished to gain dominion over all of Thessaly. To this end, he banished Neleus and Pherês, and locked Aeson in the dungeons in Iolcus (by the modern city of Volos). While in the dungeons, Aeson married and had several children, most famously, Jason. Aeson sent Jason away from Iolcus in fear that Pelias would have ...
Pelias wanted to rule over Thessaly; so he banished his brother Neleus and his half-brother Pheres, while he imprisoned his other half-brother Aeson. While imprisoned, Aeson got married and had a number of children, including the famous Jason , whom he managed to disguise and send away, in fear that Pelias might kill him as a rightful heir of ...
Pelias and Neleus would go their separate ways, with Pelias returning to Iolcus; and there Pelias discovered that Cretheus had died. Now Aeson was the rightful heir to the throne, but Pelias instead seize the throne through force, and imprisoned his stepbrother in one of the palace’s dungeons.
Sep 30, 2023 · When Pelias returned to Iolcus, he discovered that the king, Cretheus had passed away and his stepbrother Aeson was in line for the throne. Although Aeson was the rightful heir, Pelias decided he would take the throne by force and made Aeson a prisoner in the palace dungeons.
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According to Valerius Flaccus, Pelias had forced Aeson to drink poison, after Jason and the Argonauts on the quest. Aeson cursed Pelias before he died that his cousin would be killed by his own daughters (see Death of Pelias). Other writers say that Aeson was murdered later, or that he survived upon his son’s return.
Some tell of how Pelias decided now to kill Aeson, Aeson’s wife and son Promachus to prevent future threats to his rule, and so perhaps Pelias killed all three. Alternatively, Pelias might have induced all three to commit suicide by telling them that Jason and the Argonauts had perished in their quest; the method of suicide being either ...
Aug 5, 2022 · By clark August 5, 2022September 2, 2022. Peleus was an Argonaut who fled the city of Aegina after he and his half-brother, Telamon, murdered their sibling, Phocus. The two brothers landed in Phthia for the purification ceremony only for Peleus to later kill the King of Phthia albeit in another accident.
