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Aeson was the son of Cretheus and Tyro. He had two brothers Pheres and Amythaon. Through his mother Tyro who consorted with the sea god Poseidon, he had two half-brothers, Neleus and Pelias. [2] Aeson was the father of Jason and Promachus with Alcimede, daughter of Phylacus [3] and Clymene. [4]
Jason's father is invariably Aeson, but there is great variation as to his mother's name. According to various authors, she could be: Alcimede, daughter of Phylacus [8] and Clymene [9] Polymede, [10] or Polymele, [11] or Polypheme, [12] a daughter of Autolycus; Amphinome [13] Theognete, daughter of Laodicus [12] Rhoeo [14] Arne or Scarphe [15]
Pelias was the son of Tyro and Poseidon.His wife is recorded as either Anaxibia, daughter of Bias, or Phylomache, daughter of Amphion.He was the father of Acastus, [1] Pisidice, Alcestis, Pelopia, Hippothoe, [2] Amphinome, Evadne, [3] Asteropeia, Antinoe [4] and Medusa. [5]
Jason, celebrating his return with the Golden Fleece, noted that his father Aeson was too aged and infirm to participate in the celebrations. Medea understood the impact this had on Jason and was able to invigorate him by withdrawing the blood from Aeson's body, infused it with certain herbs, and returning it to his veins. [19]
Instead, Pelias kept Aeson prisoner and forced him to renounce his inheritance. Aeson married Alcimede, who bore him a son named Jason. Pelias intended to kill the baby at once, but Alcimede summoned her kinswomen to weep over him as if he were stillborn. She faked a burial and smuggled the baby to Mount Pelion.
Alcimede’s father was King Phylacus, [2] eponymous founder of Phylace, and sister of Iphiclus [3] and Clymenus.. She was the mother of Jason by Aeson, King of Iolcus. [4] She met Aeson in the caves below Iolcus in Thessaly, a chthonic lair where the rightful king Aeson had been imprisoned by his evil half-brother Pelias.
It was Pelias who sent Aeson's son Jason and his Argonauts to look for the Golden Fleece. The ship Argo set sail from Iolcus with a crew of fifty demigods and princes under Jason's leadership. Their mission was to reach Colchis in Aea at the eastern seaboard of the Black Sea and to reclaim and bring back the Golden Fleece.
Jason Father Aeson, mother Alcimede: As indicated by the page numbers, he becomes a more influential hero in the second half of the poem (books 3 and 4). He is often referred to only as 'Son of Aeson'.