In the context of the multiethnic Habsburg Empire, the coexistence of dfferent people is still essential in the eighteenth century, i.e. They underline the multiethnic cooperation and the peaceful establishment of new towns by the Colchians, who lost the original negative connotation of cruelty and became migrants living with the people that had welcome them. At the middle of the 16th century, after the Distinguished Order of the Golden Fleece – established by the House of Burgundy – had passed to the House of Habsburg, the myth was revived in two epic poems, La caccia by Erasmo di Valvasone and L’Egida by Girolamo Muzio (which initially celebrated just this order of chivalry). The Adriatic and Ionian Seas create an area where dfferent people may live together and interact. Some elements of these two narratives become crucial in the new ver- sions of myth in modern Italian literature: the European seas and rivers are interconnected and it is always possible to sail from one place to another the Adriatic-Ionian basin is at the center of this network of European waterways. In both epic poems many people come into contact between the Adriatic and the Ionian Seas: the Illyrians from the Northern Adriatic, the Phaeacians from Corcyra, the Greek Argonauts, and the Colchians, who come from the extreme borders of the world and represent radical otherness. they landed here also in the anonymous Argonautica Orphica, a er entering the Mediterranean Sea through the Strait of Gibraltar.
Sailing up the Po and crossing the Tyrrhenian Sea, they got to the island of the Phaeacians in the Ionian Sea.
In the Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius, the Argonauts, back from Colchis where they had retrieved the Golden Fleece, reached the Adriatic Sea from the river Danube.
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