Apollonius Rhodius
About this book
"Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica, composed in the third century B.C.E., is the epic retelling of Jason's quest for the golden fleece. Along with his contemporaries Callimachus and Theocritus, Apollonius refashioned Greek poetry to meet the interests and aesthetics of a Hellenistic audience, especially that of Alexandria in the Ptolemaic period following Alexander's death. In this carefully crafted work of 5,835 hexameter verses in four books, the author draws on the preceding literary traditions of epic (Homer), lyric (Pindar), and tragedy (especially Euripides) but creates an innovative and complex narrative that includes geography, religion, ethnography, mythology, adventure, exploration, human psychology, and, most of all, the coming of age and love affair of Jason and Medea. It greatly influenced Roman authors such as Catullus, Virgil, and Ovid, and was imitated by Valerius Flaccus." "This new edition of the first volume in the Loeb Classical Library offers a fresh translation and an improved text."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
- 883.01
- ancient geography
- argonauts (greek mythology)
- argonauts (greek mythology) in literature
- argonauts (greek mythology)--poetry
- classical literature, history and criticism
- continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- epic poetry
- epic poetry, greek
- epic poetry, greek--translations into english
- greek epic poetry
- greek language materials
- greek literature
- greek poetry
- greek poetry, translations into english
- jason (greek mythology)
- jason (greek mythology) in literature
- jason (greek mythology)--poetry
- latin literature
- medea (greek mythology)
- pa3872 .e5 2009
- poetry
- poetry (poetic works by one author)
- translations into english
- translations into french
- translations into georgian
- translations into italian