Kelsey’s Reviews > The Voyage of Argo > Status Update

I do also have to say though, great translation, highly recommend

... to do. And after all that, he will go on to abandon Medea for another woman. So good story, absolutely no empathy for Jason.
4 stars

mythology I suppose (as I had to keep reminding myself). My biggest issue however was with Jason. Jason is hailed as the hero of the voyage but he literally did nothing for himself. Like seriously. All of his successes were either a group effort, Medea giving him magical stuff and telling him exactly what to do, or the gods intervening (seriously constantly, why do they like this man so much) and telling him what...

This was an interesting read and I did definitely enjoy it for the most part. It was written fairly well, though I suppose it's true that it's unfairly compared to Homer. Although there were certain timeline things that didn't seem quite right like Castor and Pollux being on the Argo even though the later Trojan war was fought over their sister and Peleus father of Achilles was on the same journey. But it is...

Jason still hasn't really done anything lol it was either his advisor's idea or Medea making him invincible and telling him what to do

getting more interesting, still not very attached to any of the characters and I'm starting to see why this is considered the lesser contemporary of Homer. But the onward to Colchis section was much more fun to read than all the preparation and listing of every argonaut and their lineage