The story also reveals complex family loyalties. King Athamas, King Pelias, and Media all drive the people around them (and themselves) into chaos as a result of their self-serving motives.
The story of the Quest for the Golden Fleece highlights the dangers of selfishness and jealousy. Later, Jason marries another woman, and Medea becomes so angry that she kills both the bride and her own two sons fathered by Jason. When they return to Greece, she arranges for King Pelias to be killed by his own daughters, which fulfills the oracle. On the journey home, Medea kills her brother in the idea that she is protecting Jason. She leads him to the fleece, charms the serpent guarding it, and flees with Jason back home. The treacherous king will not give him the fleece, however. She also tells him to throw a rock into the middle of the army because it will lead the armed men to kill each other. Thanks to Cupid's bow, however, Medea gives Jason a magical potion that gives give him invincibility for one day. Jason agrees, though he believes the task will result in his death. Jason asks Etes for the fleece, but Etes says Jason must plow a field of dragon's teeth, which will spring up into a crop of armed men who must be cut down as they advance and attack. Hera and Aphrodite arrange for Cupid to make King Etes's daughter, Medea, fall in love with Jason. Finally, with the help of Hera, he reaches King Etes.
Jason sets off and overcomes many obstacles and adventures on the way to Colchis. Pelias tells Jason that he would give up the throne if Jason would go out and retrieve the golden fleece. This is Jason, the king's nephew, come to claim his rightful place as king.
One day, a man wearing one sandal comes to town. An oracle tells him that he will die at the hands of a kinsman and that he should be wary of a man wearing only one sandal. Meanwhile, in another part of Greece, a king named Pelias has stolen the crown from his brother. Phrixus arrives safely in the country of Colchis, where he sacrifices the ram and gives it to King Etes. The ram carries the children across the water from Europe to Asia, and on the way, the girl slips off and drowns. The ram, sent by Hermes, is an answer to Nephele’s prayers. Athamus and Io bring the boy to the sacrificial altar, but just before the murder, a wondrous ram with a golden fleece takes the boy and his sister and runs away. Then, when Athamas asks for word from an oracle about how to end the famine, Io bribes a messenger to say that the only way to bring back the crops is to sacrifice his son, Phrixus. She secretly gathers seed-corn and parches the seed so that no crops will grow. Nephele prays that Io will not kill her two children in order to make Io’s own children inherit the kingdom. He marries Io, a young princess, in her place. A Greek king, Athamas, gets tired of his wife Nephele and puts her jail.
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