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Aeson's wife [[Alcimede|Alcimede I]] had a newborn son named Jason, whom she saved from Pelias by having female attendants cluster around the infant and cry as if he were [[Stillbirth|stillborn]]. Fearing that Pelias would eventually notice and kill her son, Alcimede sent him away to be reared by the [[centaur]] [[Chiron]].<ref name="pbs">[https://www.pbs.org/mythsandheroes/myths_four_jason.html Wood, Michael. "Jason and the Argonauts", ''In Search of Myths & Heroes'', PBS]</ref> She claimed that she had been having an affair with him all along. Pelias, fearing that his ill-gotten kingship might be challenged, consulted an [[oracle]], who warned him to beware of a man wearing only one sandal.
Many years later, Pelias was holding [[Olympic Games|games]] in honor of Poseidon when the grown Jason arrived in Iolcus, having lost one of his sandals in the river [[Anauros]] ("wintry Anauros") while helping an old woman (actually the goddess [[Hera]] in disguise) to cross.<ref name="pbs" /> She blessed him, for she knew what Pelias had planned. When Jason entered Iolcus (the present-day city of [[Volos]]), he was announced as a man wearing only one sandal. Jason, aware that he was the rightful king, so informed Pelias. Pelias replied, "To take my throne, which you shall, you must go on a quest to find the Golden Fleece." Jason readily accepted this condition.
== The Argonauts and the Quest for the Golden Fleece ==
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