Composed in the third century B.C., the Argonautica is the only extant Greek epic between Homer and the later Roman Empire. It tells of Jason's successful expedition with the Argonauts to recover the Golden Fleece from Colchis on the Black Sea. Medea, a young Colchian princess, falls in love with Jason and helps him survive the ordeals imposed by her father. The description of Medea's emotional suffering exercised a profound influence on subsequent writers and especially on Virgil in his account of Dido and Aeneas. Dr. Hunter's edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the poem and its poet, an up-to-date text of Book III and a full commentary that discusses the problems of language and translation. He also delves into the poetic meaning of the work and Apollonius' creative use of the Homeric heritage.
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- Collectanea Alexandrina by J. U. Powell in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Symposium and Phaedrus (Dover Thrift Editions) by Plato in Front Matter
- Iliad and Odyssey by Homer on page 95
- Ptolemaic Alexandria (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints) (Vols 1-3) by P. M. Fraser in Back Matter
- Prometheus Bound (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Aeschylus on page 189
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- Jason and the Golden Fleece: (The Argonautica) (Oxford World's Classics) by Apollonius of Rhodes in Front Matter
- Imaginary Greece: The Contexts of Mythology by Richard Buxton in Back Matter
- Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art by James J. Clauss in Back Matter
- Sound, Sense, and Rhythm: Listening to Greek and Latin Poetry. by Mark W. Edwards in Back Matter
- Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria by Susan A. Stephens in Back Matter
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