A companion to Apollonius Rhodius /

This collection of essays, on the author of the "Argonautica", covers a wide range of issues from the history of the text and the problems of the poet's biography through questions of style, literary technique and intertextual relations to the epic's library and cultural receptio...

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Other Authors:	Papanghelis, Theodore D., Rengakos, Antonios
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2001.
Series:	Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 217.
Subjects:	Apollonius, > Rhodius. > Argonautica. Medea, > consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character) > In literature. Argonautica (Apollonius, Rhodius) Greek poetry, Hellenistic > History and criticism. Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism. Argonauts (Greek mythology) in literature. Jason (Greek mythology) in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	CONNECT

Table of Contents:

Cover
Contents
List of Contributors
Editors' Introduction
1. Outlines of Apollonian Scholarship 1955-1999
2. The Textual Tradition of the Argonautica
3. Myth and History in the Biography of Apollonius
4. Hellenistic Chronology: Theocritus, Callimachus, and Apollonius Rhodius
5. The Poetics of Narrative in the Argonautica
6. Apollonius Rhodius as "Inventor" of the Interior Monologue
7. The Similes of Apollonius Rhodius. Intertextuality and Epic Innovation
8. "Homeric" Formularity in the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes
9. Apollonius Rhodius as a Homeric Scholar
10. Apollonius as a Hellenistic Geographer
11. Apollonius and Virgil
12. "Est deus in nobis . . .": Medea meets her Maker
13. Echoes and Imitations of Apollonius Rhodius in Late Greek Epic
14. The Golden Fleece. Imperial Dream
Bibliography
Index
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A companion to Apollonius Rhodius /

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