Argonauts - The Crew of The Argo

The Crew of The Argo

There is no definite list of the Argonauts. The following list is collated from several lists given in ancient sources.

  1. Acastus
  2. Actor (son of Hippas)
  3. Admetus
  4. Aethalides
  5. Amphiaraus
  6. Amphidamas
  7. Amphion (son of Hyperasius)
  8. Ancaeus
  9. Areius
  10. Argus (builder of Argo)
  11. Argus (son of Phrixus)
  12. Ascalaphus
  13. Asclepius
  14. Asterion (son of Cometes)
  15. Asterius (brother of Amphion)
  16. Atalanta
  17. Augeas
  18. Autolycus, son of Deimachus
  19. Bellerophon
  20. Butes
  21. Calaïs (son of Boreas)
  22. Caeneus (son of Coronus)
  23. Canthus
  24. Castor (son of Zeus)
  25. Cepheus, King of Tegea
  26. Clytius (son of Eurytus)
  27. Coronus (son of Caeneus)
  28. Cytissorus
  29. Deucalion of Crete
  30. Echion
  31. Eribotes
  32. Erginus (son of Poseidon)
  33. Erytus (brother of Echion)
  34. Euphemus
  35. Euryalus
  36. Eurydamas
  37. Eurymedon (son of Dionysus)
  38. Eurytion
  39. Heracles (son of Zeus)
  40. Hippalcimus
  41. Hylas
  42. Idas
  43. Idmon
  44. Iolaus (nephew of Heracles)
  45. Iphitos
  46. Jason
  47. Laërtes
  48. Laocoön (half-brother of Oeneus and tutor of Meleager)
  49. Leitus
  50. Leodocus
  51. Lynceus
  52. Medea (joined when the Fleece was recovered)
  53. Melas
  54. Meleager
  55. Menoetius
  56. Mopsus
  57. Nauplius
  58. Neleus (son of Poseidon)
  59. Nestor
  60. Oileus
  61. Orpheus
  62. Palaemon
  63. Palaimonius (son of Hephaestus)
  64. Peleus
  65. Peneleos
  66. Perseus
  67. Periclymenus
  68. Phalerus
  69. Phanus (brother of Staphylus and Eurymedon)
  70. Philoctetes
  71. Phlias (son of Dionysus)
  72. Phocus
  73. Phrontis
  74. Poeas
  75. Prias (brother of Phocus)
  76. Pollux (son of Zeus)
  77. Polyphemus
  78. Staphylus
  79. Talaus
  80. Telamon
  81. Thersanon (son of Helios and Leucothoe)
  82. Theseus
  83. Tiphys
  84. Zetes (son of Boreas)

Several more names are discoverable from other sources. Amyrus, eponym of a Thessalian city, is given by Stephanus of Byzantium as "one of the Argonauts"; he is otherwise said to have been a son of Poseidon and to have given his name to the river Amyrus. Azorus was the helmsman of Argo according to Hesychius of Alexandria; he could be the same as the Azorus mentioned by Stephanus as founder of the city Azorus in Pelagonia.

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