Argo 🆓 ⭐

To accomplish this, Jason commissioned the master shipbuilder Argus to construct a vessel unlike any seen before. With the help of the goddess Athena, the was built—a galley of fifty oars, featuring a magical piece of timber in its prow from the sacred oaks of Dodona that could speak and prophesy. The Gathering of Giants

The Argo itself was hauled onto the shore of the Isthmus of Corinth as a monument to the greatest voyage ever made. Years later, a weary, elderly, and forgotten Jason sat beneath the rotting hull of his old ship. As he sighed over his lost glory, a piece of the weathered timber—perhaps that same prophetic oak from Dodona—broke off and fell, striking Jason on the head and killing him instantly. Even in its decay, the Argo had the final word. Years later, a weary, elderly, and forgotten Jason

The return journey was even more twisted. To evade the King's fleet, the Argo traveled through the Danube, the Po, and the Rhine rivers, even entering the Mediterranean from the north. They faced the , whose deadly songs were drowned out by Orpheus’s even more beautiful music. They navigated between the whirlpool Charybdis and the monster Scylla . The return journey was even more twisted

Jason didn’t go alone. He assembled the "Avengers" of the Bronze Age—the . The roster included: Heracles (Hercules) , the strongest man alive. The roster included: Heracles (Hercules)