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Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica (Loeb Classical Library #1) (English, Greek and Ancient Greek Edition) by Apollonius, Rhodius.; R C Seaton is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Apollonius was a Greek grammarian and epic poet of Alexandria in Egypt and lived late in the 3rd century and early in the 2nd century BCE . While still young he composed his extant epic poem of four books on the story of the Argonauts. When this work failed to win acceptance he went to Rhodes where he not only did well as a rhetorician but also made a success of his epic in a revised form, for which the Rhodians gave him the 'freedom' of their city; hence his surname. On returning to Alexandria he recited his poem again, to applause. In 196 Ptolemy Epiphanes made him the librarian of the Museum (the university) at Alexandria. Apollonius's Argonautica is one of the better minor epics, remarkable for originality, powers of observation, sincere feeling, and depiction of romantic love. His Jason and Medea are natural and interesting, and did much to inspire Virgil (in a very different setting) in the fourth book of the Aeneid .
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- Author
- Apollonius, Rhodius.; R C Seaton
- Publisher
- Loeb Classical Library
- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674990012
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, History
- Rating
- 3.82 / 5 (20 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Jason and the Argonauts (Penguin Classics) (2015)
- Jason and the Argonauts (2014)
- Apollonios de Rhodes: Argonautiques. Tome III: Chant IV (1981)
- Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Book III (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) (1989)
- Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica (2009)
- Jason and the Golden Fleece: (The Argonautica) (Oxford World's Classics) (2009)
- Contrasting Arguments: An Edition of the Dissoi Logoi (1979)
- Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica) (Oxford Worlds Classics) (1993)
- Jason and the Argonauts (Penguin Classics) (2014)
- Apollonius Rhodes Argonautica Bk 3 (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) (INCOMPLETE) (1989)
- The Argonautika by Apollonios Rhodios (1997)
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