Argonautika

By Apollonius Rhodius

Subjects: Argonauts (greek mythology), Translations into English, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Jason (Greek mythology), Argonauts (greek mythology)--poetry, Epic poetry, greek--translations into english, Epic poetry, greek, Translations into Georgian, Ancient Geography, Classical literature, history and criticism, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Greek Epic poetry, Jason (greek mythology), Argonauts (Greek mythology), Pa3872 .e5 2009, Translations into Italian, Greek poetry, Medea (Greek mythology), Jason (greek mythology)--poetry, Poetry, Greek language materials, Translations into French, 883.01

Description: "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.