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Argonauts are featured in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, noted for their ability to use their tentacles as sails, though this is a widespread myth. A female argonaut is also described in Marianne Moore's poem "The Paper Nautilus". "Argonauta" is the name of a chapter in Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea.
Sozomen wrote that when the Argonauts left from the Aeëtes, they returned from a different route, crossed the sea of Scythia, sailed through some of the rivers there, and when they were near the shores of Italy, they built a city in order to stay at the winter, which they called Emona (Ancient Greek: Ἤμονα), part of modern-day Ljubljana ...
The Argonauts and Colchians reached the Adriatic Sea by a fabled branch of the Ister River. Jason and Medea murdered her brother Apsyrtus on one of the Brygean Islands. His Colchian followers later settled around the Adriatic and their descendants still remain there, including the 'Apsyrtians' on the Brygean Islands.
Argonauts are not thought to actively hunt, but employ this method to catch animals that bump into them in the open ocean. [2] A. argo is occasionally involved in mass strandings along the South African and southern Australian coastlines. The strandings are seasonal and generally occur between April and August, towards the end of the animals ...
In Greek mythology, the Argo (/ ˈ ɑːr ɡ oʊ / AR-goh; Ancient Greek: Ἀργώ, romanized: Argṓ) was the ship of Jason and the Argonauts. The ship was built with divine aid, and some ancient sources describe her as the first ship to sail the seas. The Argo carried the Argonauts on their quest for the Golden Fleece from Iolcos to Colchis.
Though argonauts are derived from benthic octopuses, they have evolved to depart the sea floor and live their life-cycle in the open seas. [1] The family is characterised by brittle white shells constructed by the females, but which the dwarf male argonauts lack. These shells are primarily egg-cases, and are not attached to the body of the female.
A. hians is known to cling to objects floating on the surface of the sea, including other argonauts. [3] [6] Chains of up to 20-30 argonauts of similar size have been reported. [3] The first female in such chains usually clings to some inanimate object, while the other females hold on to the ventral part of the shell of the preceding animal.
Charybdis (/ k ə ˈ r ɪ b d ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Χάρυβδις, romanized: Khárybdis, Attic Greek: [kʰárybdis]; Latin: Charybdis, Classical Latin: [kʰäˈrʏbd̪ɪs̠]) is a sea monster in Greek mythology. Charybdis, along with the sea monster Scylla, appears as a challenge to epic characters such as Odysseus, Jason, and Aeneas.