Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Cretheus.
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Cretheus
Aeolid founder-king of Iolcus, husband of Tyro, father of Aeson, Pheres and Amythaon — the grandfather-line of Jason and the Argonauts.
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Aeson
Cretheus' son — rightful king of Iolcus and father of Jason; Medea's rejuvenation scenes keep the Cretheid house on canvas even when Cretheus himself is offstage.
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Jason
Cretheus' grandson — the Argonaut captain whose claim on Iolcus runs through Aeson's line from the city's founder.
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Argonautica
Apollonius of Rhodes
The epic of the Argo inherits Cretheus as the Iolcan stem — the Aeolid king whose house Pelias usurped and Jason sailed to restore.