Argonautica

Name: Argonautica
Brand: Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press

ArgonauticaAuthor(s): Apollonius Rhodius, William H. Race\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: Loeb Classical Library\nISBN-13: 9780674996304, 978-0674996304\nSynopsis\nThe Greek epic account of the quest for the golden fleece.\n\nApollonius Rhodius Argonautica, composed in the 3rd century BC, is the epic retelling of Jasons 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 Alexanders 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 al.