Whats the Argo?
The Argo is the ship of those who sailed with Jason a generation before the Trojan war, to Aea, which in later times was understood to be Colchis, lying at the farthest end of the Black Sea. As the legend goes, their voyage took place before the time of Homer’s Odysseus and has many parallels to the plot of the Odyssey. As in the Odyssey, a group of heroes make a journey through fabulous lands and bump into all kinds of strange gods, people, and monsters. The object of the Argo’s expedition was to fetch back the golden fleece of the ram on which Phrixus the son of Athamas had fled, from his father and his stepmother Ino, to the magician Aeetes, king of Aea. For the full story, dict/redir?method=standard®exp=argonauts”>click here.
