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"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.
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Poetry, Argonauts (Greek mythology), Medea (Greek mythology), Jason (Greek mythology), Greek Epic poetry, Translations into English, Translations into Georgian, Translations into Italian, Translations into French, Ancient Geography, Greek language materials, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Greek poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Classical literature, history and criticism, Jason (greek mythology)--poetry, Argonauts (greek mythology)--poetry, Epic poetry, greek, Epic poetry, greek--translations into english, Pa3872 .e5 2009, 883.01Showing 10 featured editions. View all 93 editions?
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Jason and the golden fleece: (the Argonautica)
2009, Oxford University Press
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The Argonautika: the story of Jason and the quest for the golden fleece
1997, University of California Press
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The Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, book III
1979, Arno Press
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