The Mighty Argonauts

Genre/Style: Saturday Morning Cartoon Theme Song

Touchstones: Johnny Douglas, “Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends"; Hoyt Curtin, “Super Friends”

Themes: Heroism, “super”heroes, folk tale, powers in the ancient world, children’s media, bowdlerization of myth

Myth: Jason and the Argonauts

Notable Tellings: Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautika (3rd C. BCE); Hyginus, Fabulae 3 and 12-25 (2nd C. AD?)