Jason and the Argonauts

      

       Largest ship thus far—built by Argus

 

its prow has a magic talking beam, cut from Zeus' oracular oak

 

              The Argonauts (best of the best, pre-Troy):

 

o  Heracles

o  Theseus

o  Orpheus

o  Castor and Polyduces* (imm) (Pollux)

§  sons of Zeus

§  Dioscuri

§  brothers of Helen of Troy

o  Boreads (Zetes and Calais)--winged

o  Telamon (father of Ajax)

o  Peleus (father of Achilles)

o  Meleager (brother of Deianira; hero of Boar hunt)

o  Admetus (husband of Aclestis—helped by Heracles)

o  Augeas (stabler)

o  Tiphys—helmsman

o  Idmon (seer)

o  Argus

 

 

       To the Black Sea!