Pirithous, King of the Lapiths, was there too.162 He had a special reason to join the crew perhaps, for he was descended from Ixion, whose inappropriately libidinous handsiness with Hera, you will recall, was the primary cause of the creation of Nephele, the summoning of the golden ram, and its flight to Colchis with Phrixus and Helle in the first place. Two other Argonauts are worth mentioning here: Philoctetes, who was to play crucial parts in the story of Heracles and in the Trojan War; and Euphemus, a son of Poseidon who could walk on water. All in all the ship’s complement amounted to
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