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520 a| Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica, composed in the third century BCE, is an epic retelling of Jason's quest for the golden fleece. It greatly influenced Roman authors such as Catullus, Virgil, and Ovid, and was imitated by Valerius Flaccus.b| Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica, composed in the 3rd century BCE, 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 improved text.;

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Argonautica / Apollonius Rhodius ; edited and translated by William H. Race.

Author/creator	Apollonius author.
Other author	Race, William H., 1943- editor, translator.
Format	Electronic
Publication	Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Description	1 online resource : maps.
Supplemental Content	https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL001/2009/volume.xml
Subjects	Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character)--Poetry. Jason (Mythological character)--Poetry. Argonauts (Greek mythology)--Poetry. Epic poetry, Greek--Translations into English.

Series	Loeb Classical Library ; 1 Loeb classical library ; 1. ^A467228
Abstract	Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica, composed in the third century BCE, is an epic retelling of Jason's quest for the golden fleece. It greatly influenced Roman authors such as Catullus, Virgil, and Ovid, and was imitated by Valerius Flaccus. Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica, composed in the 3rd century BCE, 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 improved text.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliography and index.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language	Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages.
Source of description	Description based on print version record.
Issued in other form	Print version: Apollonius, Rhodius. Argonautica. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009 9780674996304
Genre/form	Epic poetry, Greek Translations into English.
ISBN	print version

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