Editing Argonauts (section)

=== Talos ===
[[File:Comparable to the Group of Polygnotos ARV extra - death of Talos - draped youths 03.jpg|thumb|Pulling the plug on Talos as Medea stands by with her magic box ([[Attic red-figure]] [[column-krater]], 450-400 BC)]]Putting to sea from there, they were hindered from touching at Crete by Talos. Some say that he was a man of the Brazen Race, others that he was given to Minos by Hephaestus; he was a brazen man, but some say that he was a bull. He had a single vein extending from his neck to his ankles, and a bronze nail was rammed home at the end of the vein. This Talos kept guard, running round the island thrice every day; wherefore, when he saw the Argo standing inshore, he pelted it as usual with stones. His death was brought about by the wiles of Medea, whether, as some say, she drove him mad by drugs, or, as others say, she promised to make him immortal and then drew out the nail, so that all the ichor gushed out and he died. But some say that Poeas shot him dead in the ankle.