<P> Argo was constructed by the shipwright Argus, and its crew were specially protected by the goddess Hera . The best source for the myth is the Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius . According to a variety of sources of the legend, Argo was said to have been planned or constructed with the help of Athena . According to certain sources, Argo was the first ship to sail the seas . It was Athena who taught Tiphys to attach the sails to the mast, as he was the steersman and would need an absolute knowledge of the workings of the ship . According to other legends, she contained in her prow a magical piece of timber from the sacred forest of Dodona, which could speak and render prophecies . </P> <P> After her successful journey, Argo was consecrated to Poseidon in the Isthmus of Corinth . She was then translated into the sky and turned into the constellation Argo Navis . </P> <P> Several authors of antiquity (Apollonius Rhodius, Pliny, Philostephanus) discussed the hypothetical shape of the ship . Generally she was imagined like a Greek warship, a galley, and authors hypothesized that she was the first ship of this type that had gone out on a high - sea voyage . </P>

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