The Origins of the Argonautica Story

There are some really early things that possibly go back to the ancient Near East. The Hercules stories amongst the oldest strata of myth, and there's pretty good sense from the Homeric poems that the Jason story was already really well known. It looks like it's so much newer story, but actually it's a really old one. That is amazing. I'd forgotten how explicitly, like, I don't think I'd kind of clocked or just, it's been a long time since I've read the Iliad,. But of course, Cersei makes these really explicit references to that already having happened.