Pelias- Greek DemigodDemigod"King of Iolcus"

The Usurper of Iolcus

Pelias was a son of Poseidon and the mortal Tyro, twin brother of Neleus. Tyro had exposed both infants, and they were raised by herdsmen before eventually reclaiming their identities. Their stepfather Cretheus, king of Iolcus, had a legitimate son, Aeson, who was the rightful heir. After Cretheus died, Pelias seized the throne by force, imprisoning his half-brother Aeson and driving out Aeson's children. An oracle warned Pelias to beware a man wearing one sandal.

The One-Sandaled Man

Jason, son of Aeson, had been spirited away as a child and raised by the centaur Chiron on Mount Pelion. When he came of age, Jason set out for Iolcus to claim his father's throne. At the river Anauros, he lost one sandal helping an old woman across — actually the goddess Hera in disguise, who bore a grudge against Pelias for neglecting her worship. When Jason arrived at Iolcus wearing a single sandal, Pelias recognized the oracle's fulfillment. Rather than yield the throne, he sent Jason on what he believed would be a fatal quest: to retrieve the Golden Fleece from distant Colchis, at the far edge of the known world.

The Death of Pelias

Jason returned triumphant with both the Golden Fleece and the sorceress Medea. But Pelias refused to honor his promise to surrender the throne. Medea demonstrated to his daughters that she could rejuvenate the old by slicing open an aged ram and boiling it with magic herbs — from the cauldron a young lamb leaped out, alive and bleating. The daughters, desperate to restore their father's youth, cut Pelias to pieces and placed him in the cauldron. Medea withheld the true herbs, and Pelias was boiled to death. His son Acastus drove Jason and Medea from Iolcus and held funeral games in his father's honor.