The Witenwasserenstock (see Media (“Witenwasserenstock” 2017)) is a peak between the Swiss cantons of Valais and Uri, located in the Lepontine Alps. Close to the summit lies the tripoint border between the cantons of Valais, Uri and Ticino and the triple watershed of the Rhine, Po and Rhône basins . . . (Read More). The mighty goddess Hera could have been perched on the Witenwasserenstock, itself a mighty peak (3,082 m), when she descended (line 640) to warn the Argonauts about venturing further North and the river systems that seems to pass close to it make it feasible for the Argonauts to find their way across Middle Europe; see the notes ad loc. for more.

Argonauts' route across the top of Italy.

Demonstrates a feasible route across Europe for the Argonauts.

“Amber Washed Up On Beaches of Kaliningrad.” 2015. Weird Russia (blog). January 8, 2015. https://weirdrussia.com/2015/01/08/amber-washed-up-on-beaches-of-kalini….

Shows that the description of the floating Amber in the text is a plausible one.

“Heliades in Arbores.” Johannes Spreng, Meta- morphoses Ovidii, 1563. Courtesy of the Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.

Terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)ca. 470–460 B.C.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/253427

More details of the Argonauts' travels, showing the islands in the area where they first, supposedly, emerge into the Adriatic.

Shows the further route of the Argonauts.

O Tempestates! Some Storms in Ancient Poetry

28.10.2012 / BRET MULLIGAN / LATIN LITERATURE

• Pacuvius Teucer 350-365 W.
• Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.1-21 — how it is pleasant to see others in trouble:
• Horace, Odes 3.29: The Aegean Storm
• Vergil, Georgics 1.311-37
• Vergil, Aeneid 1.81-123 — The Trojans, in sight of their new home in Italy, are driven to Carthage (and trouble).
• Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.474-572 — Ceyx & the Tempest.
• Lucan, Pharsalia 5. 560-677 — description of the storm on the Adriatic sea during Caesar’s attempted crossing.
• Valerius Flaccus. Argonautica 1.574-692 — will the Argonauts be drowned before their adventure has scarcely begun?
• Silius Italicus, Punica 17. 201-90 — Hannibal, the Anti-Aeneas, sails from Italy to Africa.
• Statius, Thebaid 1.336-382 — a rare description of a storm on land, symbolizes the internal turmoil of Polyneices on the eve of civil war.
• Juvenal, Satire 12.1-82 — the merchant Catullus attempts to survive a storm.
• Aldhelm, Quando profectus fueram / A Storm in Devon

See also: https://bit.ly/3xWRY0V

The map shows the route followed by the Argonauts followed in the immediate aftermath of the murder of Apsyrtus, Aietes' son. The idea of the loop is to try to throw the Colchians off the scent.