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== After the journey == [[Image:Argo Navis - Prodromus astronomiae 1690 (436433).jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|The constellation Argo Navis drawn by [[Johannes Hevelius]]]] After her successful journey, ''Argo'' was consecrated to [[Poseidon]] in the [[Isthmus of Corinth]]. Because the ship was a sacred item, having been made with the help of the gods, she was made into a monument as well as being dedicated to the gods.<ref name=":2" /> Years later, a beam fell from the top of the ship and killed [[Jason]] while he was asleep on the ground.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/medeatranslatedi00euriuoft|title=The Medea. Translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray|last1=Euripides|last2=Murray|first2=Gilbert|date=1912|publisher=New York Oxford University Press|others=Robarts - University of Toronto|pages=[https://archive.org/details/medeatranslatedi00euriuoft/page/77 77]β78, 96}}</ref> He was then translated into the sky and turned into the [[constellation]] [[Argo Navis]].<ref name="E1728">{{1728|title= Argo| url= http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=turn&id=HistSciTech.Cyclopaedia01&entity=HistSciTech.Cyclopaedia01.p0177&q1=Argo | page= 132}}</ref>
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