This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...proceeded onward to iEgina, where however they again experienced resistance before they could obtain water--then along the coast of Euboea and Locris back to Iolkos in the gulf of Pagasae, the place from whence they had started. The proceedings of Pelias during their absence, and the signal revenge taken upon him by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...proceeded onward to iEgina, where however they again experienced resistance before they could obtain water--then along the coast of Euboea and Locris back to Iolkos in the gulf of Pagasae, the place from whence they had started. The proceedings of Pelias during their absence, and the signal revenge taken upon him by Medea after their return, have already been narrated in a preceding section.'1 The ship Argo herself, in which the chosen heroes of Greece had performed so long a voyage and braved so many dangers, was consecrated by Jason to Poseidon at the isthmus of Corinth. According to another account, she was translated to the stars by Athene, and became a constellation.1 Traces of the presence of the Argonauts were found not only in the regions which lay between Iolkos and Kolchis, but also in the western portion of the Grecian world--distributed more or less over all the spots visited by Grecian mariners or settled by Grecian colonists, and scarcely less numerous than the wanderings of the dispersed Greeks and Trojans after the capture of Troy. The number of Jasonia, or temples for the heroic worship of Jason, was very great, from Abdera in Thrace,2 eastward along the coast of the Euxine, to Armenia and Medea. The Argonauts had left their anchoring-stone on the coast of Bebrykia, near Kyzikus, and there it was preserved during the historical ages in the temple of the Jasonian Athene.3 They had founded the great temple of the Idaean mother on the mountain Dindymon, near Kyzikus, and the Hieron of Zeus Urios on the Asiatic point at the mouth of the Euxine, near which was also the harbor of Phryxus.4 Idm6n, the prophet of the expedition, who was believed to have died of a wound by a wild boar on the Maryandynian coast, was worshipped by the inhabitants of t...
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