Abstract
In 1925 Miss J. R. Bacon wrote concerning Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica: ‘If the centre of the story is sought, that feature which above all others is indispensable, it must be found in the Argo. It is Argo—sea-adventure—that differentiates the Argonautica on the one hand from pure fairy-tale, the six soldiers of fortune and the like, and on the other from the stories of great human appeal like the Homeric poems. The Odyssey, as its name implies, is the story of a man: the Argonautica too is well named—it is the story of a ship and of a voyage.’ It was no doubt because he shared such feelings that Nathaniel Hawthorne in his Tanglewood Tales (1853) made so much of the ‘personality’ of the ship, or, more exactly, of its figurehead, ‘the daughter of the Speaking Oak of Dodona’, which in his version of the story of the Golden Fleece so often advises Jason in his difficulties.
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