Editing Alcimede (mother of Jason) (section)

== Mythology ==
The old story of Alcimede's son Jason and the quest for the [[golden fleece]] is most familiar from a late version, the ''[[Argonautica]]'' of [[Apollonius of Rhodes]].

A hint of matrilineal descent in archaic times among the [[Boeotia]]n Minyans of Greece is in Apollonius' aside concerning Jason's heritage:

:"So many then were the helpers who assembled to join the son of Aeson. All the chiefs the dwellers thereabout called Minyae, for the most and the bravest avowed that they were sprung from the blood of the daughters of Minyas; thus Jason himself was the son of Alcimede, who was born of Clymene, the daughter of Minyas."<ref>Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.228–233</ref>

A further hint of archaic matrilineal descent is that Clymene's consort is offered in two versions: she was usually cast as the wife of Phylacus (son of [[Deioneus]], son of [[Aeolus (son of Hellen)|Aeolus]]) or in some versions, Aeson was fathered by [[Cephalus]], otherwise the consort of Procris.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 10.29.6</ref>

Along with Aeson, Alcimede was forced by the usurping [[Pelias]] to commit suicide. She hanged herself or else drank, along with her husband and the child [[Promachus]], of bull's blood and so died.