“[Jason's] body was bare, so that he looked like Apollo of the golden sword as much as Ares god of war.”

— Apollonius of Rhodes , book Argonautica

Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book III. Jason and Medea, Lines 1282–1283

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Γυμνὸς δέμας, ἄλλα μὲν Ἄρει εἴκελος, ἄλλα δέ που χρυσαόρῳ Ἀπόλλωνι.

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ancient Greek poet -295–-215 BC

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