The ARGONAUTS sailed from Iolcus, a city in Thessaly on the coast of the Gulf of Pagasae. Before leaving the Gulf they stopped at Aphetae and then, going north, they sailed past Meliboea and Homole where they turned east. Their first stop was at Lemnos, and after being some time in that island the ARGONAUTS came, sailing through the Hellespont, which is the strait dividing the Thracian Chersonese from Asia Minor, to the land of the Dolionians on the coast of the Propontis.

After having visited the lands of the Dolionians, Bebrycians, and Mariandynians, the ARGONAUTS, passing through the Clashing Rocks (Symplegades) of Bosphorus, sailed past a number of peoples living in eastern Asia Minor, before reaching the mouth of the river Phasis and the city of Aea in Colchis, where Aeetes was king. On their way home, the ARGONAUTS touched Paphlagonia in northern Asia Minor, before entering the river Ister (now Danube).

The ARGONAUTS returned navigating first the river Ister (now Danube). Having reached the sea which is today called Adriatic, they killed Medea's brother in one of the islands that later were called Apsyrtides. They then entered the mouth of the river Eridanus (now Po), and after navigating this river they managed to come to the river Rhodanus (Rhône), and thence to the Mediterranean Sea. Out in the Mediterranean, they sailed past the Stoechades Islands (now Hyères islands, off the southeast cost of the country called France) and Aethalia (now Elba), before reaching Aeaea, Circe's abode, located here in Italy, but otherwise considered as an island of doubtful location. Having sailed past the SIRENS, the Wandering Rocks (Planctae), Scylla and Charybdis, the ARGONAUTS came to the land of the Phaeacians, generally identified with the island of Corcyra or Corfu. After that, they came to the Lake Tritonis in the continent then called Libya but today called Africa. The ARGONAUTS had their last significant adventure in Crete, and thence, sailing past the islands of Anaphe and Aegina and through the straits between the island of Euboea and mainland Greece, they returned to Iolcus.