The old version of Jason, especially the Harryhausen stop motion special effects, is a classic film...But the latest version from the Hallmark channel includes the heroine Atalanta, the only woman (in some versions) who was included with the great heroes who went with Jason and the Argonauts to get the golden fleece.
Like most myths (which get changed as they get told by word of mouth) there are a couple different version but HERE is the wikipedia entry on Atalanta.
Medea, of course,is the most fascinating character.
but this is a new factoid I learned about her, from the Apoloodurus version:
[5] The death of Achilles filled the army with dismay, and they buried him with Patroclus in the White Isle,* mixing the bones of the two together. It is said that after death Achilles consorts with Medea in the Isles of the Blest.
* a wooded island in the Euxine (Black Sea) off the mouth of the Danube
The first to affirm that Achilles married Medea in the Elysian Fields was the poet Ibycus, and the tale was afterwards repeated by Simonides.
(Scholiast on Ap. Rhod., Argon. iv.815)
Neither of these alternative versions is mentioned in this film, an excellent introduction to the story:
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