Thank you for the link. Though I couldn’t find anything that would limit them from passing through on their own.
“I couldn’t find anything that would limit them from
passing through on their own.”
I don’t either. I think Turkey is saying “there is no way to *guarantee* the safety of a pentaconter rowing through the straights, unless we shut down all traffic in it, and we don’t want to do that.”
It’s not as if Jason had a guarentee of safe passage.
Then again, the Boreads (who could fly), Heracles, Philoctetes, Peleus, Telamon, Orpheus, Castor and Pollux, Atalanta, and Euphemus were in the crew of the first Argo. Nothing like a bunch of classic heroes and demigods to provide a guarantee of safe passage.