Book 4
Summary
Summary
Invocation of the Muse (1-5)
Distress of Medea, who bids farewell to her home (6-33)
Flight of Medea: exultation of Titania (34-65)
Medea comes to the Argonauts (66-91)
Jason welcomes Medea (92-108)
Jason takes the fleece by the magic agency of Medea (109-182)
The Argonauts begin their return (183-211)
The Colchians pursue them (212-235)
They land at the mouth of the Halys (236-252)
Argus sets forth the plan of their voyage (253-293)
They enter the Ister (294-302)
The Colchians pursue them through the Ister to the Adriatic (303-337)
Truce between the Argonauts and Colchians (338-349)
Medea reproaches Jason; they plot the murder of Absyrtus (350-444)
Imprecations on Eros (445-451)
Murder of Absyrtus (452-481)
On the advice of Peleus the heroes press on; the Colchians cease pursuing and settle in Illyria (482-521)
The Hylleans receive the heroes hospitably (522-551)
The will of Zeus is revealed that they must be cleansed from their bloodguiltiness (552-591)
They enter the Eridanus (592-626)
They pass into the Rhodanus, and reach the sea at the Stoechades (627-658)
Arrival at Aeaea: Circe purifies Jason and Medea (659-717)
Medea tells her tale to Circe, who spurns her from her house (718-752)
Hera persuades Thetis to save the Argo from Scylla and Charybdis (753-832)
Thetis visits Peleus, and reveals the will of Hera (833-884)
The Argonauts pass by the isle of the Sirens; the Nereids save them from the Planctae (885-981)
They come to Phaeacia; others of the Colchians arrive and demand back Medea, who implores Arete and the heroes (982-1067)
Alcinous, on his wife's entreaty, decides that Medea shall not be given up if she be already wedded to Jason (1068-1109)
Arete brings these tidings to Jason; consummation of the marriage (1110-1169)
Alcinous declares his decision to the Colchians, who are allowed to settle among the Phaeacians; departure of the Argonauts (1170-1227)
They are driven by a tempest within the Syrtes; despair of the heroes (1228-1304)
The Libyan goddesses take pity on them, and send a wondrous portent (1305-1379)
They bear the Argo on their shoulders over the desert to Lake Tritonis, where the Hesperides show them a spring (1380-1460)
Search for Heracles who has carried off the golden apples: death of Canthus (1461-1501)
Death of Mopsus (1502-1536)
Triton shows them the outlet of the lake, and guides the Argo seaward (1537-1622)
They sail towards Crete (1623-1637)
They are repelled by Talos, who is slain by Medea's magic wiles (1638-1693)
Phoebus appears to save them at the isle of Anaphe (1694-1730)
The dream of Euphemus: its interpretation by Jason (1731-1764)
Arrival at Aegina (1765-1772)
End of the voyage (1773-1781).
Commentary on line 1
For the invocation cf. 3. 1.
ka/maton: 'the pangs,' cf. 3. 961.
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