The Argonautica

Name: The Argonautica
Author: Apollonius Rhodius
ISBN: 9781911535775

Author: Apollonius Rhodius
Series: Epic Story
Language: English
Length: 154 pages
ISBN: 9781911535775
Published: 19 October 2016
Imprint: Sovereign

Apollonius
Argonautica
Golden Fleece
Greek
epic
adventure
play
Greece
drama
mythology

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Description

The Argonautica is a Greek epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius in the 3rd century BC. The only surviving Hellenistic epic, the Argonautica tells the myth of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from remote Colchis. Their heroic adventures and Jason's relationship with the dangerous Colchian princess/sorceress Medea were already well known to Hellenistic audiences, which enabled Apollonius to go beyond a simple narrative, giving it a scholarly emphasis suitable to the times.

Author

Apollonius Rhodius (3rd century BCE) wrote the Argonautica, the surviving Greek epic of Jason, Medea, and the quest for the Golden Fleece. Scholar-poet of Alexandria, he gave Hellenistic epic a psychological subtlety that later Latin poets, especially Virgil, studied closely. The Argonautica remains adventure and love story in one — gods, ships, and a heroine who will not be simple.

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