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JasonArgonauts2.0010_Willing

OGCMA"Jason and the Argonauts"
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Jason and the Argonauts (2000), televised miniseries (2 episodes; 179 minutes), directed by Nick Willing, screenplay by Matthew Faulk and Mark Skeet; produced with Jim Henson's Creature Shop for Hallmark Entertainment and distributed on DVD.

A fairly straightforward adaptation of the classical myth produced on (pretty much) family-friendly production values. The encounter with Poseidon is an early narrative aberration in an extended adaptation that stretches from the sandal lost in the ford to Medea's betrayal of her family. The adaptation ends with Jason's return to Iolcus, even though the conventional classical return is substantially different.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.