Building the Argo

Description

"At that time the only species of navigation known to the Greeks consisted of small boats or canoes hollowed out from trunks of trees, so that when Jason employed Argos to build him a vessel capable of containing fifty men, it was considered a gigantic undertaking." —Bulfinch, 1897

Keywords

argo, Argonaut, boat, construction, Greek, myth, ship

Galleries

Greek Mythology: A

Source:

Thomas Bulfinch, The Age of Fable (Philadelphia: Henry altemus Company, 1897) 163

Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman