| “ | Aphrodite grants you the Argo, a powerful heroic ship that may be rebuilt if sunk. | ” |
| —In-game description | ||
Argonauts is a Greek myth technology in Age of Mythology: Retold, available to research at the Dock if the Heroic Age is reached through Aphrodite. It spawns and enables retraining The Argo, the hero archer ship.
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Mythology[]
| “ | The Argo ("swift sailing") was a ship built by Argos of Thessaly out of beech trees from Mount Pelion. Athena aided in the construction herself. Jason and the other Argonauts sailed on the Argo in their quest for the Golden Fleece. It was the largest ship ever built, with a full fifty oars, one for each of the Argonauts. Athena fitted the bow with a figurehead of lumber cut from her sacred oaks at Dodona that could speak and had the gift of prophecy. Some of the Argonauts included: • Jason, the captain • Atalanta of Arcadia, the virgin huntress • Calais, the winged son of Boreas • Heracles, the strongest man in Greece • Peleus the Myrmidon, Achilles' father • Orpheus, the Thracian bard • Castor and Pollux, the Spartan Dioscuri • Nauplius the Argive, son of Poseidon and a great navigator • And that most famous of Greek heroes, Butes of Athens, the bee-master |
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| —In-game help section | ||
