Shipwrecked âArgonauticasâ
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This chapter examines the relationship between Lucanâs conflicting presentation of the Argo and his conflicting vision of Pompeyâs triumphal propaganda. The Argonautic myth inevitably attached itself to any Roman general campaigning in the East against Mithridates. Lucan refracts the struggle for control of the memory of Pompeyâs triumphs onto the conflicting Alexandrian versus Roman representations of the myth. By linking Pompeyâs false hopes for victory at the end of book 2 with Apolloniusâ description of the Argoâs passage through the Clashing Rocks, Lucan deliberately emphasizes his silence about Argoâs status as the first ship, since in Apollonius the Argo is emphatically not the harbinger of doom it represents in Roman poetry.