![]() The Adriatic and Ionian Seas create an area where dfferent people may live together and interact. ![]() 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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