Status Updates From Jason and the Argonauts (Pe...

The golden fleece is red, "like to a cloud that blushes red (ἐρεύθεται) with the fiery beams of the rising sun." In Thalaba the Destroyer (written in English around 1800), gold hair means red hair, with footnotes that make it clear the poet thinks that's the usual meaning of gold hair. Prose Edda, gold is red. Starting to suspect the current gold = yellow is an outlier.

"The sun went down, and Jason’s work was done." and he barely does anything!!!! he doesn't even seduce Medea himself, it's Hera and Aphrodite who ask Aphrodite to ask her son Eros to make Medea fall madly in love with him at their behest, so that she will help Jason survive his trial, which he only undertakes once he has become impervious. what a joke of a "hero"