Editing Argonauts (section)

=== Alternative stories for the returned route ===
[[Sozomen]] wrote that when the Argonauts left from the Aeëtes, they returned from a different route, crossed the sea of [[Scythia]], sailed through some of the rivers there, and when they were near the shores of [[Italy]], they built a city in order to stay at the winter, which they called [[Emona]] ({{langx|grc|Ἤμονα}}), part of modern-day [[Ljubljana]] in [[Slovenia]]. At summer, with the assistance of the locals, they dragged the Argo to the Aquilis river ({{langx|grc|Ἄκυλιν ποταμὸν}}), which falls into the Eridanus. The Eridanus itself falls into the [[Adriatic Sea]].<ref>[[Sozomen]]os, ''Ecclesiastical History'' [http://cts.perseids.org/read/greekLit/tlg2048/tlg001/1st1K-grc1/1.6 1.6] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815191320/http://cts.perseids.org/read/greekLit/tlg2048/tlg001/1st1K-grc1/1.6 |date=2020-08-15 }}</ref>

[[Zosimus (historian)|Zosimus]] wrote that after they left from the Aeëtes, they arrived at the mouth of the [[Danube|Ister river]] which it discharges itself into the [[Black Sea]] and they went up that river against the stream, by the help of oars and convenient gales of wind. After they managed to do it, they built the city of Emona as a memorial of their arrival there. Afterwards placing the Argo, on machines they drew it as far as the sea-side and from there they went at the Thessalian shore.<ref>[[Zosimus (historian)|Zosimus]], ''New History'' [https://topostext.org/work/740#5.29 5.29]</ref>

[[Pliny the Elder]] wrote that some writers claim that the Argo came down some river into the Adriatic Sea, not far from [[Tergeste]] but that river is now unknown. While other writers say that the ship was carried across the Alps on men's shoulders, having passed along the Ister river, then along the [[Savus]] river, and then to [[Nauportus]] which is lying between the Emona and the Alps.<ref>[[Pliny the Elder]], ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Naturalis Historia]]'' 3.22.1</ref>