Argonauts Argonauts The Argonauts (; Ancient Greek: Ἀργοναῦται "Argonautai") were a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War, around 1300 BC, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Their name comes from their ship, "Argo", named after its builder, Argus. "Argonauts" literally means ""Argo" sailors". They were sometimes called Minyans, after a prehistoric tribe in the area. After the death of King Cretheus, the Aeolian Pelias usurped the Iolcan throne from his half-brother Aeson and became king of Iolcus in Thessaly (near the modern city of Volos). Because of
Tintin and the Golden Fleece Tintin and the Golden Fleece Tintin and the Golden Fleece (in the original French, "Tintin et le Mystère de La Toison d'or", meaning "Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece") is a film first released in France on 6 December 1961. Featuring characters from "The Adventures of Tintin" comic book series written and drawn by the Belgian writer-artist Hergé, it was a live-action film with actors made-up to look like the characters and featured an original storyline not based on any of the books. The film is set in Turkey and Greece with the main characters of Tintin and