Editing Argonauts (section)

=== Island of Cyzicus ===
After Lemnos, the Argonauts made their second stop at [[Kapıdağ Peninsula|Bear Mountain]], an island of the [[Propontis]] shaped like a bear.<ref>
{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gxwB5fQeMWIC|title=The Companion Guide to Istanbul and Around the Marmara|last1=Freely|first1=John|date=2000|publisher=Companion Guides|isbn=9781900639316|series=Companion guide to Turkey|volume=1|location=Woodbridge, Suffolk|page=350|quote=The Kapidağ peninsula was in antiquity known variously as Arctonoros (Bear Mountain) or Arctonissos (Bear Island). It was then indeed an island, which its early settlers linked to the mainland by bridges that could be removed when enemies appeared; in later times alluvial deposits created the isthmus that we see today.|author-link1=John Freely|access-date=2018-03-04}}
</ref> The locals, called the [[Dolionians|Doliones]], were all descended from [[Poseidon]]. Their king [[Cyzicus (mythology)|Cyzicus]], son of [[Eusorus]], who had just gotten married, received the Argonauts with generous hospitality and decided to have a huge party with them. During that event, the king tried to tell Jason not to go to the eastern side of the island, but he got distracted by Heracles, and forgot to tell Jason.

When they had left the king and sailed a whole day, a storm that arose in the night brought them unaware to the same island. Cyzicus, thinking they were a [[Pelasgian|Pelasgican]] army (for they were constantly harassed by these enemies) attacked them on the shore at night in mutual ignorance of each other. The Argonauts slew many, including Cyzicus, who was killed by Jason himself. On the next day, when they came near the shore and knew what they had done, the Argonauts mourned and cut off their hair. Jason gave Cyzicus a costly burial and handed over the kingdom to his sons.<ref>Hyginus, ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#16 16]</ref><ref>Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''Bibliotheca'' 1.9.18</ref>