In recent years the subtlety and complexity of Apollonius' Argonautica have been better appreciated, but in Dr Hunter's view the purposes and aesthetic of the epic are still not readily understood and much basic analysis remains to be done. The present book seeks to offer some of that analysis and to place the Argonautica within its social and intellectual context. A series of studies deal with notions of heroism; with eros and the suffering of Medea; the role of the divine; poetic voice and literary self-consciousness; and the Ptolemaic context of the poem. A pervasive theme of the book is Apollonius' creative engagement with Homer, and a final chapter sketches out an approach to Virgil's use of Apollonius in the Aeneid. The Argonautica emerges as a brilliant and original experiment. This book is the only advanced study of the Argonautica currently available. All Greek is translated.
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- The Homeric Hymn to Demeter by N. J. Richardson on page 40, page 100, and Back Matter
- The Homeric Hymns by Homer on page 110, and page 116
- Greek Literature (Essay Index Reprint) by Columbia University. Department of Classical Philology in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Hellenistic Anthology (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) by Neil Hopkinson in Back Matter
- Epic and Romance in the Argonautica of Apollonius (Literary Structures) by Charles Rowan Beye Ph.D. in Back Matter
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- Theocritus: A Selection: Idylls 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 and 13 (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) by Theocritus on page 193, and Back Matter
- Fifty Key Classical Authors (Fifty Key Thinkers) by Rhiannon Ash on page 159, and page 160
- Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths by Professor Mary Lefkowitz in Back Matter
- Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths by Professor Mary Lefkowitz in Back Matter
- The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition by Gaius Valerius Catullus in Back Matter
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