Talk:Argo

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 29 March 2021 and 11 June 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): MagpieMeadows. Peer reviewers: Annika.Nicholas, Sailing to Byzantium 2021.

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Landing page for 'Argo'

Most certainty people are looking for the Argo (2012 film) and not this start-class article. If no objections, I think the default for 'Argo' should be the Best Picture Film, Argo (on english wikipedia).

--Opertinicy (talk) 02:32, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

On the meaning of Argo

The article previously stated that the meaning of the word Argo was "swift". This seems very wrong to me. In modern Greek, Argos is "slow", and according to the ancient dictionaries I have, the older word was actually derived from "Silver". I have removed the possibly erroneous definition, awaiting discussion or sources. ResultingConstant (talk) 20:23, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

What about the figurehead?

In the movie Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film), the Argo is shown with an immense figurehead with the shape of Hera, and located not in the prow, but in the stern of the boat. Is this an invention of the movie, or was this described like so in the Argonautica or somewhere else?