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West wind departure

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Often appears with: strategy and the aims of war · sirens and anthemoessa · scylla and charybdis · orpheus with lyre · naval warfare and sea power

Usually: narrative (1) · wonder (1)

The Argonautica primary

Apollonius Rhodius · c. 3rd century BCE (composition of the Argonautica; second edition/revision in Rhodes)
BOOK I > BOOK IV (19/46)

The Argonauts depart at dawn with the west wind, escape the Sirens at Anthemoessa by Orpheus’s music, and proceed as new ship-destroying dangers approach Scylla, Charybdis, and the Wandering rocks.

Thetis. And they broke off in the midst and hurriedly ceased their contests, and prepared their meal and earth-strewn beds, whereon after supper they slept through the night as aforetime. Now when dawn the light-bringer was touching the edge of heaven, then at the coming of the swift west wind they went to their thwarts from the land; and gladly did they draw up the anchors from the deep and made the tackling ready …