Diodorus Siculus tells us that upon the assassination of the tyrant Jason of Pherae, in 370 BC, his brother Polydorus ruled for a year, but he was then poisoned by Alexander, another brother.

The states of Thessaly, which had previously acknowledged the authority of Jason of Pherae, were not so willing to submit to Alexander the tyrant, ( especially the old family of the Aleuadae of Larissa, who had most reason to fear him ).

Thebe, Alexander's wife and cousin ( or half-sister, as the daughter of Jason of Pherae ), concealed her three brothers in the house during the day, had the dog removed when Alexander had gone to rest, and, having covered the steps of the ladder with wool, brought up the young men to her husband's chamber.

He also entered into a league with Jason of Pherae, and assiduously cultivated the friendship of Athens.

In the 4th century BC Jason of Pherae transformed the region into a significant military power, recalling the glory of Early Archaic times.

* Jason of Pherae becomes tyrant of Thessaly.

* The tagus of Thessaly, Jason of Pherae, dies, after making Thessaly a powerful force in Greek politics.

* Jason of Pherae, ruler of Thessaly

However, their Thessalian allies under Jason of Pherae dissuaded them from shattering what remained of the Spartan army.

The arrival of a Thessalian army under Jason of Pherae persuaded a relieving Spartan force under Archidamus not to heap folly on folly and to withdraw instead, while the Thebans were persuaded not to continue the attack on the surviving Spartans.

The Thebans also sent a herald to their Thessalian ally, Jason of Pherae.

In history, it was more famous as the home of the fourth-century tyrants Jason and Alexander of Pherae, who took control of much of Thessaly before their defeat by the Thebans.

The delay upset the Athenians, who brought him to trial ; but, thanks to the intervention of his allies -- Jason, tyrant of Pherae, and Alcetas of Epirus, King of the Molossians, both of whom went to Athens to plead his cause -- he was acquitted.

The Liddell-Scott Greek-English Lexicon defines ' philhellen ' as " fond of the Hellenes, mostly of foreign princes, as Amasis ; of Parthian kings [...]; also of Hellenic tyrants, as Jason of Pherae and generally of Hellenic ( Greek ) patriots.

* Jason of Pherae

The Thessalian cavalry was famed for its use of rhomboid formations, said to have been developed by the Thessalian Tagos ( head of the Thessalian League ) Jason of Pherae.

Jason, Medea, and the Argonauts fled Colchis and began their return journey to Thessaly.

It figures in the tale of Jason and his band of Argonauts, who set out on a quest by order of King Pelias for the fleece in order to place Jason rightfully on the throne of Iolcus in Thessaly.

She was the mother of Jason by Aeson, whom she met in the caves below Iolcus in Thessaly, a chthonic lair where the rightful king Aeson had been imprisoned by his evil half-brother Pelias.

When his two companions are slain, Jason escapes to the ship ; whereafter he, Medea, and the surviving Argonauts begin their return to Thessaly.

Freda's " Sins of Rome " ( 1953 ) was one of the first Italian peplums, predating Steve Reeves's " Hercules " by four years, and his classic " Giants of Thessaly " ( 1961 ) was theatrically released one year before Ray Harryhausen's famous " Jason and the Argonauts ".

After Jason revealed himself to Batman and kidnapped the Joker, he does not only become a thorn to Batman and his allies in Gotham but also ends up clashing with the Teen Titans, Outsiders, and Green Arrow as well.

EUROSEC director Jason Webb ( Patrick Wymark ) convinces NASA representative David Poulson ( Ed Bishop ) that the West must launch astronauts to investigate the planet before Hassler's allies in the East.

In the latter part of the 1990s Waugh himself, along with his twin brother Mark, scored heavily for Australia and fast bowlers Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie made a serious impact, especially the former.

First, Jason had to plow a field with fire-breathing oxen, the Khalkotauroi, that he had to yoke himself.

Later Jason and Peleus, father of the hero Achilles, attacked and defeated Acastus, reclaiming the throne of Iolcus for himself once more.

The widow dies shortly after Superman's return to Earth, and Luthor immediately sets out to avenge himself, first by ransacking the Fortress of Solitude, and later through the abduction of Lois Lane and her son Jason.

First, Jason had to plough a field with fire-breathing oxen that he had to yoke himself.

In some versions, Medea is said to have dismembered his body and scattered his parts on an island, knowing her father would stop to retrieve them for proper burial ; in other versions, it is Absyrtus himself who pursued them, and was killed by Jason.

It is an urban myth that he chose the name Jason as a tribute to his dead twin: Jason himself has denied this.

Under a rule forbidding distribution of the joint possessive, writing " Jason and Sue's children than " Jason's and Sue's children " died in the crash " eliminates the implication that Jason lost children of whom Sue was not the mother, but it introduces ambiguity as to whether Jason himself was killed.

" Upon the Mother depend the winds, the ocean, the whole earth beneath the snowy seat of Olympus ; whenever she leaves the mountains and climbs to the great vault of heaven, Zeus himself, the son of Cronus, makes way, and all the other immortal gods likewise make way for the dread goddess ," the seer Mopsus tells Jason in Argonautica ; Jason climbed to the sanctuary high on Mount Dindymon to offer sacrifice and libations to placate the goddess, so that the Argonauts might continue on their way.

* Jason Bateman ( as himself )

First, Jason had to plow a field with fire-breathing oxen that he had to yoke himself.

Roman leader Jason Grace duels and defeats Krios himself.

With Jason and the Dioscuri, Peleus sacked Iolcus, dismembered Astydamia ( and, in some accounts, Acastus himself ), and marched his army between the pieces.

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.

** 1998: London Weekend Television's three-hour mini-series Tess of the D ' Urbervilles, directed by Ian Sharp, and starring Justine Waddell ( Tess ), Jason Flemyng ( Alec ), and Oliver Milburn ( Angel ), the latter himself Dorset-born.

Jason would later find himself alive after a reality changing incident, eventually becoming the Red Hood.

NBA star Jason Richardson has also pioneered several notable variations of the between-the-legs including a lob-pass to himself and a pass off of the backboard to himself.

In an interview in June 2011, Kember revealed that Jason Pierce and himself had not had contact since 1990 or 1991.

The Jason Russell House, a yellow colonial, is today a museum which remembers those twelve Americans, including Russell himself, who were killed in and around this pictured dwelling on April 19, 1775.