The Argo’s Long Shadow over Lake Tritonis and Lemnos: two Dormant Oracles in Herodotus

• Carmen Sánchez-Mañas ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Murcia

     Universidad de Murcia

     Murcia, España

     
• Localización: Ágora: estudos clássicos em debate, ISSN 0874-5498, Nº. 24, 2022, págs. 13-32
• Idioma: inglés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • A Longa Sombra da Argo sobre o Lago Tritonis e Lemnos: dois Oráculos Dormentes em Heródoto
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  • Two dormant oracles in Herodotus’ Histories, 4.179 and 6.139-140, allow us to establish an interrelation between the Greek colonisation of Libya and the Athenian con-quest of Lemnos based on the Argonautic myth. This paper conducts an in-depth exami-nation of both passages from a comparative perspective, considering these aspects: mythi-cal setting, conditioned oracular structure, use of tricks by characters, flashback as a narrative technique and the wind’s role in the tales. Results show that the myth presents a Panhellenic vocation in the first oracle and a local vocation in the second