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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. The translation is both reliable and accurate, as well as gripping to read, and is designed to bring out the best of apollonius brilliant, highly original, and sometimes disturbing poem. Now in a riveting new verse translation, jason and the argonauts also known as the argonautica is the only surviving full. Apollonius of rhodes has 123 books on goodreads with 18687 ratings.
Aug, 2015 apollonius epic, the argonautica, is not just a masterpiece of hellenistic poetry drawing on the entire tradition of previous greek literature, but was enormously influential on latin epic, especially virgils aeneid. Publication date 20080811 usage public domain topics audiobook fiction, folklore, mythology. Jason and the golden fleece download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl. We cannot guarantee that in search of the argonauts book is in the library, but if you are still not sure with the service, you can choose free trial service. The only extant greek epic poem to bridge the gap between homer and late antiquity, it is a major product of the brilliant world of the ptolemaic court at alexandria, written by apollonius of rhodes in the 3rd century bc. The penguin book of classical myths ebook by jennifer march. It describes the thrilling adventures of the argonauts on their voyage to colchis to plead with king aeetes for the fleece, his greatest treasure and the erosinspired passion felt by his daughter, the. The argonautica is the dramatic story of jason s quest for the golden fleece and his relations with the dangerous colchian princess, medea. The story of how jason and a group of famous heroes of greece took to sea in the argos has been told many times, before and after apollonius of rhodes, wrote his argonautica, in the 3rd century b.
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