Motif
first ship or first warship
first_ship_or_first_warship
A motif of the Culture Hero and Founder family, within the sub-family Technologies and Transport. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 10597-10622 confidence: medium
The note says the passage may mean the sea had not been navigated before, and mentions poetic claims that the Argo was the first ship, with the alternative that it was the first warship.
The note reports poetic claims that the Argo was the first ship and offers the alternative that it may have been the first ship of war.
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