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Apollonius Rhodius’s <em>Argonautica</em>, 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.
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Loeb Classical Library - 1: Argonautica, Apollonius Rhodius, R. C. Seaton
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- Année de publication
- 1990
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- Titre
- Loeb Classical Library - 1: Argonautica
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Apollonius Rhodius, R. C. Seaton
- Éditeur
- Loeb Classical Library
- Publié
- 1990
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 544
- ISBN10
- 0674990013
- ISBN13
- 9780674990012
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Fantasy, Aventure, Poésie, Classiques, Mythologie, Époque antique, Grèce, Mythologie grecque, Grèce antique, Littérature grecque, Littérature ancienne et antique, Grec
- Description
- Apollonius Rhodius’s <em>Argonautica</em>, 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.