Golden Fleece, the fleece of a ram which Phryxos (q.v.), after he had sacrificed him to Zeus, gave to Æëtes, king of Colchis, who hung it on a sacred oak, and had it guarded by a monstrous dragon, and which it was the object of the Argonautic expedition under Jason to recover and bring back to Greece, an object which they achieved. See Argonauts.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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