argonautica pdf Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/argonautica-pdf Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 The Voyage of the Argo Begins http://toursmaps.com/the-voyage-of-the-argo-begins.html http://toursmaps.com/the-voyage-of-the-argo-begins.html#respond Sat, 07 Apr 2018 14:52:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=245597 To sail to Colchis, Jason commissioned a ship, the Argo, named after its builder, Argus, who constructed it from pine trees felled on Pelion, while Athene fitted to its prow a talking plank, cut from the sacred oak at Dodona. For his crew (the Argonauts, ‘Argo Sailors’) Jason assembled the bravest heroes of his age. Most sources agree that they included Castor and Polydeuces from Sparta, Meleager from Calydon, Zetes and Calais, sons of the North Wind, Iphitus, the brother of Tiryns’ King Eurystheus, Pelias’ son Acastus, Orpheus, and Heracles, who – although the bravest of them all conceded the

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