 A massive rootstock was carved into a cult image of the Great Goddess and set up on the coast of Phrygia by the Argonauts.The late "Dionysiaca" of Nonnus recounts the primitive invention of wine-pressing, credited to Dionysus, and Homer's description of the Shield of Achilles describes that part of its wrought decoration illustrating the grape harvest from a vineyard protectively surrounded by a trench and a fence; the vines stand in rows supported on stakes.He also wrote that Laertes, father of Odysseus, had over 50 grape varieties planted in different parts of his vineyard.