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We welcome you to our team: 1st Gym Robotics Team. Through our projects we learn to cooperate and advance our passion for robotics and technology. Robotics unites and entertains us!
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Digital game
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Based on the board game “Jason’s trip”, the 1stgymroboticsteam created the corresponding digital game in Scratch.
The central menu displays the journey of the Argonauts and the most important missions.
The player must complete all missions to return as a winner to the starting point!
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The Argo
Way of Life
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The Heroes
Jason
Theseus
Hercules
Odysseus
Clothing
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Challenges
Ljubliana’s Dragon
Skylla and Harybde
Stymphalian Birds
Circe
Food
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Destinations
Iolkos
Crete
Slovenia
Colchis
Homes
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JASON’S ROUTE
The Argonautic Expedition
In Greek Mythology, the Argonautic campaign is the name given to the campaign of Jason and his crew from Iolkos to Colchis in the Black Sea to get the Golden Fleece, which allegorically expresses the second historical great colonization of the Greeks in the Black Sea.
This campaign was named after Jason's ship, the Argo, which in turn was named after its builder, Argo.
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https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Αργοναυτική_εκστρατεία
ARGO
https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CF%81%CE%B3%CF%8E
The construction of Argo was done, according to the legend, at the request of the leader of the expedition Jason, by Argos and his brothers.
Pagasse, a Thessalian port twenty stadia from Iolko, is mentioned as the site of the shipbuilding.
The king of Iolkos, Pelias, ordered Argos not to anchor the ship firmly, so that in the first storm it would sink.
Argos, however, ignored Pelias' order by building a ship that was flawless in construction, while he himself participated in the campaign
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ARGO
https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CF%81%CE%B3%CF%8E
Argo, according to Greek mythology, was the ship on which the Argonauts boarded in order to go to Colchis and take the golden fleece.
It took its name from the builder of Argo, son of Phrixus and Halkiope.
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ARGO
Πίνακας Lorenzo Costa
The Argo is described as the fastest and most solid boat of its time.
In addition, it was extremely light, so that it could be carried on land by its crew.
Some, more detailed, sources specify the length of the ship at 50 to 60 meters (long nas).
Tiphys was the ship's captain.
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ARGO TODAY
https://www.argonautes2008.gr/el/argo-argw/new-argo-ship-synxroni-argw.html
A real Argo opened her sails again after 3,500 years for a scientific-experimental voyage in the Adriatic.
On the initiative of the Municipality of Volos in 2004, the reconstruction of the prehistoric ship began through an integrated Research Program of Experimental Maritime Archeology of the 'NAVDOMOS' Institute, with shipbuilder and captain Apostolos Kourtis and shipwright Nikos Repos.
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Odysseus
https://www.zorpidis.gr/el/Article/5E5334DD.aspx
Odysseus, king of Ithaca, is the main character in Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey, and also plays a key role in Homer's other epic, the Iliad.
He is widely known for his cunning and ingenuity, also famous for the ten years it took him to return home after the Trojan War, as allegorically attributed to him by the epic poet Homer.
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Heracles
el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ηρακλής_του_Λύσιππου
Heracles was an ancient mythical hero, considered the greatest of Greek heroes. He was born in Thebes and was the son of Zeus and Alcmene.
He took part in the Argonautic expedition and freed Isione, daughter of the Trojan king Laomedon, from a sea monster. But he did not continue the campaign until the end.
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Jason
https://www.meisterdrucke.ie/fine-art-prints/Roman-Roman/1472054/Fresco-portraying-Jason-and-Pelias-from-Pompeii.html
According to Greek mythology, Jason was the hero who led the Argonaut Expedition.
He was the son of Aeson and Polymedes, Odysseus' aunt.
Jason was a descendant of Aeolus. Aesonas, rightful king of Iolkos, was expelled by his half-brother, Pelias.
Little Jason was raised on Pelion by the centaur Chiron.
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Theseus
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O96376/theseus-and-the-minotaur-statue-canova-antonio/
Theseus was a Greek king of Athens, according to Greek mythology, the son of Aegeus and Aethra and the most popular hero in ancient Greece after Heracles.
Theseus' most famous feat was the slaying of the Minotaur.
Theseus was one of the many heroes who took part in the Argonaut expedition
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The Ljubljana dragon
On the way back from Iolkos, Jason sailed through the rivers Danube, Sava and reached the Ljubljanica.
There, they had to get off the ship and carry it on land to the Adriatic Sea.
On their way there and due to it being winter, they set camp near a marsh where a dragon lived.
Jason killed that dragon and founded Ljubljana and so he is considered to be Ljubljana’s “first citizen”.
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https://www.visitljubljana.com/en/visitors/explore/things-to-do/sightseeing/article/ljubljana-city-of-dragons/
Skylla and Harybde
Skylla is a mythological monster that lived on the coast of Messini -near Italy- in a cave. The upper part of her body was that of a normal woman, but the lower part was surrounded by six fierce dogs that devoured anything that got near them.
Across from Skylla was Harybde, a sea monster doomed to suck a lot of water and pull everything in it in her larynx 3 times a day.
Jason sailed his ship, the Argo, successfully through the passage between them, due to the help of goddess Hera. The Argo sailed in the waters surrounded by the Nereids, that protected her, while goddess Thetis herself lead the ship.
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{ΛΕΞΙΚΟ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΡΩΜΑΪΚΗΣ ΜΥΘΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ, Pierre Grimal}
Stymphalian Birds
The Stymphalian hens were the birds that lived in a dense forest on the shores of Lake Stymphalia, in Arcadia and in some versions they are presented as carnivorous predators, that even ate people, with sharp wings of steel that they threw at their enemies or just so unusual many that were a blight on the region.
They were killed by Heracles, who, having to get them out of the forest first, used bronze rattles, which frightened the birds, and then killed them with his arrows.
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{ΛΕΞΙΚΟ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΡΩΜΑΪΚΗΣ ΜΥΘΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ, Pierre Grimal}
Circe
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Circe is a witch in Greek mythology who appears in the Odyssey, where she transforms Odysseus' companions into various animals and the Argonaut expedition.
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In the Argonautic expedition we meet her on the way back, to the island of Aia, where she is visited by Jason and her niece, Medea, to purify them and thus stop the wrath of Zeus for the murder of Apsyrtos, Medea's brother.
She accepts them, purifies them, spends a lot of time conversing with her niece, but completely refuses to host Jason. Thus, the ship continues its course.
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{ΛΕΞΙΚΟ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΡΩΜΑΪΚΗΣ ΜΥΘΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ, Pierre Grimal}
Slovenia
In Slovenia, the myth of the Argonautic expedition especially the version according to which Jason, on his return journey, crossed the Slovenian hinterland with the Argo is very popular
Jason and the Argonauts, after taking the Golden Fleece, on their return journey from the Black Sea, sailed through the Danube and its tributary Sava and reached the river Ljubljana.
There, Jason defeated the dragon of Ljubljana, which has been the symbol of the city ever since.
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Iolkos
https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%99%CF%89%CE%BB%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%82
Iolkos was an ancient city of Thessaly, in today's Magnesia, at the foot of Pelion. It was located near the beach of Pagasitikos gulf.
Kritheas, son of the god Aeolus, is mentioned as the mythical founder of Iolkos, who was succeeded by Pelias, who ordered his nephew Jason to bring the "golden fleece" from Colchis, which became the cause of the famous Argonaut Campaign.
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Colchis
https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Αργοναυτικη_εκστρατια
Their journey began from their passage through Thrace, where they found the seer Phineas, who told them that they would pass through the Entwined Stones. He advised them to let a dove pass first and if it passed, then Argo would also pass.
When they reached Sympligades, they followed Phineas's advice and the pigeon made it through, with only a little kink in its tail. Jason told the Argonauts to row fast to get through, and the Argo managed to get through the Sympligades, hitting only a little on the stern.
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Crete
https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Αργοναυτικη_εκστρατια
Nearing Crete, the Argonauts were exhausted from the long journey and wanted to land on the island but were fended off by a giant bronze man called Talos.
He was the last of a race of giant bronze people and could only be killed in a certain manner, by rupturing the only vein in his body at the back of his ankle.
Using her skills at sorcery, Medea cast a spell and a huge rock crashed against Talos' ankle, smashing his vein and causing him to bleed to death.
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The journey of modern Argo
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Report Cover Page
The argonautic expedition
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