The Goddess Athena helping Jason's ship, terracotta relief, British Museum [Credit: Townley Collection, cc. lic. Wikimedia] The golden fleece. Ancient gold prospectors placed sheepskins in swiftly running streams, and in the fleece were trapped alluvial gold washed from lodes in the mountains by winter rains. A sheepskin left for a time in a gold rich area would become literally golden. The sheepskins in ancient times were then, archaeologists think, kept for safekeeping in a temple.
![The Goddess Athena helping Jason's ship, terracotta relief, British Museum [Credit: Townley Collection, cc. lic. Wikimedia] The golden fleece. Ancient gold prospectors placed sheepskins in swiftly running streams, and in the fleece were trapped alluvial gold washed from lodes in the mountains by winter rains. A sheepskin left for a time in a gold rich area would become literally golden. The sheepskins in ancient times were then, archaeologists think, kept for safekeeping in a temple. In Ancient Times, Ancient Art, Ancient Greece Art, Art History, Athena](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/c4/4c/ba/c44cba0536b35278f5c416d9ffcc614c--jason-and-the-argonauts-ancient-greece.jpg)
!["Hylas accompanied Hercules on the Argonaut expedition. He was pulled down by nymphs at the Mysian Spring [because the nymph Dryope fell in love with him and wanted to have him with her forever]." Falling In Love With Him, Hercules, Expedition, Wanted, Forever, Mermaids](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/7b/02/40/7b0240c64ab2510a881af6e0d9f442b3--greek-mythology-hercules.jpg)
![Stahl, Jean Baptiste (1863 - 1940) - The Mettlach Plaque (Jason & The Argonauts Disembarking The Ship) [Jasperware] (c 1900) Sevres, Meissen, Wedgewood, Pompeii, Statuary, Fine Bone China, Sothebys](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/02/6a/c4/026ac486ba907e0fa3f1de798611d394--jason-and-the-argonauts-jean-baptiste.jpg)
