![]() Some elements of these two narratives become crucial in the new ver- sions of myth in modern Italian literature: the European seas and rivers are interconnected and it is always possible to sail from one place to another the Adriatic-Ionian basin is at the center of this network of European waterways. ![]() In both epic poems many people come into contact between the Adriatic and the Ionian Seas: the Illyrians from the Northern Adriatic, the Phaeacians from Corcyra, the Greek Argonauts, and the Colchians, who come from the extreme borders of the world and represent radical otherness. ![]() they landed here also in the anonymous Argonautica Orphica, a er entering the Mediterranean Sea through the Strait of Gibraltar. Sailing up the Po and crossing the Tyrrhenian Sea, they got to the island of the Phaeacians in the Ionian Sea. ![]() In the Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius, the Argonauts, back from Colchis where they had retrieved the Golden Fleece, reached the Adriatic Sea from the river Danube. ![]()
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