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- During Jason's absence, Pelias intended to kill Aeson. However, Aeson committed suicide by drinking bull's blood. His wife killed herself as well, and Pelias murdered their infant son Promachus.
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Death of Pelias. During Jason's absence, Pelias thought the Argo had sunk, and this was what he told Aeson and Promachus, who committed suicide by drinking poison. However, it is unknown but possible that the two were both killed directly by Pelias. When Jason and Medea returned, Pelias still refused to give up his throne.
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.
According to Diodorus Siculus, Pelias forced Aeson to poison by drinking the blood of a bull. Jason’s mother had had also ended her own life with a sword or dagger, but not until after she lay a horrible curse upon Pelias, while Pelias murdered Jason’s baby brother, Promachus.
Sep 30, 2023 · In the meantime, Pelias’ stepbrother Aeson, imprisoned in the dungeons had married a woman called Polymede, who gave him two sons, Promachus and Jason. In some accounts he had several children. Pelias saw Promachus as a threat, so he had him killed, but he didn’t know about Jason who had been secretly handed over into the care of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
After the death of Cretheus, Pelias usurped the throne from Aeson, the rightful heir and had him imprisoned. His plan was to murder all of the relatives of Aeson and even banish his twin brother Neleus. In despair over Aeson's situation, his wife Alcimede died, but before she had already secretly given birth to the son of Aeson, named Jason.
