A broken Jason lived on in Corinth until his old friend and fellow Argonaut Peleus, brother of Telamon, persuaded him to return to Iolcos and overthrow Acastus. This they managed and Jason was finally installed as king. His reign did not last long, however. He fell asleep one afternoon under the stern of his beloved Argo and a rotten and poorly attached beam fell on him and killed him instantly. Forward on the prow, the figurehead muttered to itself. “I warned him when the sternpost was sheared off by the Clashing Rocks all those years ago. ‘Mend it well,’ I said. ‘Mend it well, or one day
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