Argonautica

by Apollonius,, Rhodius

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Title Statements

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

Summary

"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."--Front inside flap of dust jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2008.
Edition:[New ed.]

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008.

Notes

"The present work is indebted to a line of textual scholars that includes Wellauer, Merkel, Seaton, and most notably, Vian, whose magisterial Budé edition has set the highest standard in Apollonian scholarship ... The text offered here is a fairly conservative one, which does not differ substantially from Vian's edition."--Preface, p. vii.

The Argonautica was originally published as v. 1 of the Loeb classical library in 1912, with an English translation by R.C. Seaton.

The Physical Object

Description:xxi, 511 pages : : genealogical table, maps ; : 17 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780674996304, 0674996305
oclc:on1006088402
LC Classification:PA3872
Dewey Decimal:883/.01

Introduction -- Plot outline -- Argonautica. Book 1 ; Book 2 ; Book 3 ; Book 4 -- Fragments.

Subjects

Argonautes (Mythologie grecque) -- Poés… Argonauts (Greek mythology) Argonauts (Greek mythology) -- Poetry Epic poetry, Greek Epic poetry, Greek -- Translations into… Jason (Greek mythology) -- Poetry Jason, (Mythological character) Medea (Greek mythology) -- Poetry Medea,, consort of Aegeus, King of Athe… Poésie épique grecque Poetry Translations