The Argo

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.15 the first ship

  The Argo, first ship ever built, subject of Varro's poem; the Argonauts' vessel for the fleece.

• The Loves §2.11 pine, felled on Pelion's summit

  The timber of the Argo, first ship, cut on Pelion; it 'first taught evil ways' to the once-untravelled sea.

• The Heroides §6 Argo

  The ship of the Argonauts, called 'sacred,' on which Jason sailed away from Lemnos.

• The Heroides §12 the Pelian timber

  The Argo, built of pine from Mount Pelion; the ship that brought Jason to Colchis.

• The Heroides §12 the Magnesian Argo

  The Argo, called Magnesian from Magnesia in Thessaly; Medea curses the day Colchis saw it.

• The Heroides §18 the Thessalian pine

  The Argo, of Thessalian pine, whose course Leander would follow guided by Hero's lamp.