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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.
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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).
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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.
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