All Systems Argo 2 - War and Fleece
Greeking Out from National Geographic Kids

All Systems Argo 2 - War and Fleece

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 29, 202629 min
  • Fiction & stories

Oh Muses! In this episode we meet Jason and the Argonauts and see them on their journey! We encounter murderous women, descriptions of boats, missing shoes, mistaken identity, giants with different numbers of arms, and the question of who gets to be a leader.

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0:32

Welcome back to Greeking Out. We're in the middle of our series all about Jason and his adventures in retrieving the Golden Fleece. This is only the second of a four part series about Jason's voyage.

0:48

OK, well, technically you're right. But if you didn't listen to last week's episode, you can totally go back and check it out. It gets really into the background details of who is related to who.

0:58

But as usual, you do you. You can listen however you want. And it's also worth pointing out that the first chapter of our new book, Greeking Out, Heroes and Olympians, is also a retelling of Jason's epic voyage.

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