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WonderWheeler t1_iyloaz2 wrote

The legend of the "golden" fleece implies that fleece was used to attract gold dust from streams in the regions. Something to do with lanolin or static electricity perhaps.

I am no expert on art, just an architect with an interest in archeology, but doubt the finds of Heinrich Schliemann gold, as it happened at too convenient of a time for him to make news, looks to me a bit modern, and not all that finely worked.

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RekindlingChemist t1_iyly0ux wrote

Not lanolin or static electricity. It's a convenient natural alternative to modern gold mining carpets. And legends about "golden fleece" imply that there are so much golden sand in streams in that land, that fleece after sluicing looks golden

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kifn2 t1_iyn5jpb wrote

I don't know where you heard that but it doesn't sound right. There's nothing that would imply that from the mythology. The ram named Chrysomallos, was the offspring of Poseidon raping a woman whom he had turned into a sheep. The ram was born golden and later sacrificed. This is according to Ovid and maybe there are other stories, but I don't know any that would imply the origin is from the use of fleece to mine gold.

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