Golden Fleece hangs from an apple tree. Jason's helper in the Athenian vase-paintings is not Medea— who had a history in Athens as the opponent of Theseus— but Athena. The very early origin of the myth in preliterate times means that during the more than a millennium when it was to some degree part of the fabric of culture, its perceived significance likely passed through numerous developments. Several euhemeristic attempts to interpret the Golden Fleece "realistically" as reflecting some physical cultural object or alleged historical practice have been made. For example, in the 20th century, some scholars suggested that the story of
Jonny's Golden Quest Jonny's Golden Quest Jonny's Golden Quest is a 1993 animated television movie produced by Hanna-Barbera and originally aired on USA Network. It attempts to fill back-story holes that were left unexplored in the original "Jonny Quest" cartoon series. It was in particular a follow-up to "The New Adventures of Jonny Quest", with the same actors voicing Dr. Quest (Don Messick, also from the original), Race Bannon (Granville Van Dusen) and Hadji (Rob Paulsen). It cannibalized the storyline of that series' episode "Deadly Junket," wherein a little girl appears to ask the Quest party to help her find her missing father,