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8 unusual facts about Golden Fleece


Anne Pierre Adrien, duc de Montmorency-Laval

Anne Pierre Adrien de Montmorency, Duc de Laval peer of France, Knight of the King's orders and the Golden Fleece, Knight of Saint Louis, Grandee of Spain (October 29, 1768 Paris - June 16, 1837) was a French foreign Minister.

He continued to manage the affairs of France with the same zeal, he received from His Majesty the Catholic order of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and the title of Duke of San Fernando Luis.

Carlo Ljubek

Since summer 2007 he is employed at the playhouse Cologne (Kölner Schauspiel), where he was very successfully seen as Siegfried (Nibelungen saga) and Jason ("The Golden Fleece").

Golden Fleece

## Otar Lordkipanidze (2001), “The Golden Fleece: Myth, Euhemeristic Explanation and Archaeology”, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 20, pp.

The classic telling is the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes, composed in mid-third century BC Alexandria, recasting early sources that have not survived.

The purple dye extracted from snails of the Murex and related species was highly prized in ancient times.

The story of the Golden Fleece appeared to have little resonance for Athenians of the Classic age, for only two representations of it on Attic-painted wares of the fifth century have been identified: a krater at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a kylix in the Vatican collections.

La toison d'or

La toison d'or is French for the Golden Fleece.


Trojan Yachts

It was named, after the mythological Greek heroes who sailed with Jason in quest of the Golden Fleece, the Argonaut.


see also

Anne of Geierstein

The elder fell in with a mysterious priest who provided him with a guide to the "Golden Fleece," where he was lowered from his bedroom to appear before a meeting of the Vehmic court or holy tribunal, and warned against speaking of their secret powers.

Geoffrey Gaimar

To be clear, Gaimar did not create two separate and distinct chronicles, and the two estoires were merely the former and latter sections of a long running history starting from the Argonauts' quest of the golden fleece to the reign of William II "Rufus" (d. 1100) that Gaimar set out to write.

Philip William

Philip William, Prince of Orange (1554 – 1618), Prince of Orange and Knight of the Golden Fleece

West Florida Argonauts

UWF's official mascot is the Argonaut, a mythical group of Greek sailors, who accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest for the Golden Fleece.