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With Hercules and other cavaliers – who were later called the Argonauts – he embarked on the ship called the Argo. | With Hercules and other cavaliers – who were later called the Argonauts – he embarked on the ship called the Argo. | ||
He arrived at the Island of Lemnos, and there enjoyed Hypsipyle Queen of the island, promising to marry her. However, following the advice of Hercules, he left her pregnant and went to Iolcus. | He arrived at the Island of Lemnos, and there enjoyed Hypsipyle Queen of the island, promising to marry her. However, following the advice of Hercules, he left her pregnant and went to Iolcus. | ||
Hypsipyle gave birth to twins, Thoas, and Euneos*, after she had fled Lemnos, having saved her father, the old Thoas, from the slaughtering of all the men of the Island, decreed by the women for their desire to rule, and in a poor state, she roamed about and finally arrived in the countryside at the [Foce d'Ibero]**, where she was nursing her own and Jason's children. | Hypsipyle gave birth to twins, Thoas, and Euneos*, after she had fled Lemnos, having saved her father, the old Thoas, from the slaughtering of all the men of the Island, decreed by the women for their desire to rule, and in a poor state, she roamed about and finally arrived in the countryside at the [Foce d'Ibero]**, where she was nursing her own and Jason's children. | ||
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She became pregnant and gave birth in due course to twins, Philomelos and Pluto. Jason, distracted by his new love for the unknown lady, stayed in Iolcus for a whole year without attempting the enterprise for which he had moved to that island, but in the end, spurred on by the Argonauts, and especially by Hercules, he gave the oath to do so on a certain day. | She became pregnant and gave birth in due course to twins, Philomelos and Pluto. Jason, distracted by his new love for the unknown lady, stayed in Iolcus for a whole year without attempting the enterprise for which he had moved to that island, but in the end, spurred on by the Argonauts, and especially by Hercules, he gave the oath to do so on a certain day. | ||
Meanwhile, | Meanwhile, Hypsipyle, having heard that Jason was on the island of Iolcus (a few miles from the mouth of Iberus, where she was staying), sent his confidant Orestes to ascertain what had happened and what he had done. | ||
Since the day had come, on which Jason was to attempt to win the fleece, he wanted to meet the lady, whose identity he hadn’t revealed just then, and Hercules, waiting for the sunrise, so that he (having left his amorous pleasures) could undertake the enterprise, and so begins the opera. | Since the day had come, on which Jason was to attempt to win the fleece, he wanted to meet the lady, whose identity he hadn’t revealed just then, and Hercules, waiting for the sunrise, so that he (having left his amorous pleasures) could undertake the enterprise, and so begins the opera. | ||
Medea was the daughter of | Medea was the daughter of Aietes king of Iolcus, and granddaughter of the Sun, which is why in the prologue the Sun himself applauds her marriage to Jason, which he vainly believed to be ordained by Fate, but the celebration is opposed by Amor, who long before had wounded Jason and Hypsipyle, and intended her for his wife. | ||
Jupiter was doubly offended by Jason, because not only had he taken away the honour of | Jupiter was doubly offended by Jason, because not only had he taken away the honour of Hypsipyle, who was the daughter of Toante, the granddaughter of Bacchus, and the great-granddaughter of Jupiter himself; he had also stolen the Golden Fleece, consecrated to Jove himself, from Frisso, son of Atamanthus, nephew of Aeolus, and consequently also great-nephew of Jupiter, who therefore wished to protect Hypsipyle, and to avenge, by means of Aeolus, his son, grandfather of Frisso and relative of Hypsipyle, and consequently also interested in the offence done to him by Jason; And Amor, united with Jupiter and Aeolus, caused the ship of Argos (which from Iolcus led Jason to Corinth by way of the Caspian Sea) to be driven by the force of the winds (commanded by Aeolus on the advice of Amor himself) to land at the mouth of Iberia, where Hypsipyle was, and gave her leave to see Jason again, and after various incidents made him her husband, diverting him from the love of Medea, who (pitying the unhappy state of Aegeus, whom she had already loved and then despised, and who had just freed her from death) returns him to her grace, and marries him, and in these merriments applauded by Jupiter and the other gods, ends the opera. | ||
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