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Argonaut

noun

Someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure.

(Greek mythology) one of the heroes who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece.

Cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells. Synonyms: Argonauta argo, nautilus, paper nautilus.

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... of Arkesilas, King of the Hellenic colony of Kyrene in Africa, an occasion for telling the story of Jason's expedition with the Argonauts. The ostensible reason for introducing the story is that Kyrene had been colonised from the island of Thera by the descendants of the Argonaut Euphemos, according to the prophecy of Medea related at the beginning of the ode. But Pindar had another reason. He wished to suggest an analogy between the relation of the Iolkian king Pelias to Jason and the relation of Arkesilas to his exiled kinsman Demophilos. ...

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