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Definition of Jason
1. Noun. (Greek mythology) the husband of Medea and leader of the Argonauts who sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece.
Definition of Jason
1. Proper noun. (Greek mythology) The leader of the Argonauts, who retrieved the Golden Fleece from king Aeetes of Colchis, for his uncle Pelias. ¹
2. Proper noun. (Ancient Greek male given name); it was very popular in the English-speaking world in the 1970s and the 1980s. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jason
Literary usage of Jason
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"Jason A Comedy in Three Acts BY SAMSON RAPHAELSON NOT the least ... "Jason"
continued the dissection of what might be called the creative writing craft by ..."
2. The Age of Fable; Or, Beauties of Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, John Loughran Scott (1898)
"Jason made known his message to the Colchian king, who consented to give up the
golden fleece if Jason would yoke to the plough two fire-breathing bulls ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Shall I, all lost to shame, to Jason fly > And yet I must—if Jason bleeds, ...
Jason, live ! enjoy the vital air!, Hail, black Disgrace! be fam'd for guilt, ..."
4. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"There Jason of had arisen at Pherae a despot, who was not merely vigorous ...
Jason had established his dominion by means of a well- trained body of 6000 ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"This Hercules bath this Jason praised, ^hat to the Sunne he hath it vp raised, 'hat
hälfe so ... And all this was compassed on the night Betwixt him Jason, ..."
6. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"Jason AND ANTIOCHUS TORMENT THE PEOPLE Antiochus Epiphanes was mean in his spirit,
low in his habits, covetous in disposition, and exceedingly cruel in ..."
7. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"102. 3, 370 BC The facts known about his successors may be summed up thus : '— 370.
On the death of Jason, his brothers Poly- dorus and ..."
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