Two dormant oracles in Herodotus’ Histories, 4.179 and 6.139-140, allow us to establish an interrelation between the Greek colonisation of Libya and the Athenian con-quest of Lemnos based on the Argonautic myth. This paper conducts an in-depth exami-nation of both passages from a comparative perspective, considering these aspects: mythi-cal setting, conditioned oracular structure, use of tricks by characters, flashback as a narrative technique and the wind’s role in the tales. Results show that the myth presents a Panhellenic vocation in the first oracle and a local vocation in the second
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