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Apollonius of Tyana (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος; Arabic: بلينس; Sanskrit: अपालुन्यः c. 15 – c. 100 AD) was a first-century Greek philosopher and religious leader from the town of Tyana, Cappadocia in Roman Anatolia, who spent his life travelling and teaching in the Middle East, North Africa and India.
Jul 24, 2020 · Apollonius of Rhodes avoids the most common term of his day for anger, ὀργή. Through the Classical period and into the Hellenistic, ὀργή became the predominant word for anger. In fact, it is this word and concept for anger that Aristotle analyzes and defines in the Rhetoric. When the Stoics in the Hellenistic period write about anger ...
Apollonius Rhodius’s Argonautica, composed in the 3rd century BCE, is the epic retelling of Jason’s quest for the golden fleece.Along with his contemporaries Callimachus and Theocritus, Apollonius refashioned Greek poetry to meet the interests and aesthetics of a Hellenistic audience, especially that of Alexandria in the Ptolemaic period following Alexander’s death.
Apollonius of Rhodes (third century BCE): Greek poet and scholar, living in Alexandria. The influential poet Callimachus of Cyrene had avoided writing long poems, comparing them to a muddy river, but his student Apollonius of Rhodes chose exactly this genre. His epic Argonautica, which deals with Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece, is written ...
William G. Thalmann, Apollonius of Rhodes and the Spaces of Hellenism 2011. “Apollonios’s concessions to Kallimachean fashion—the self-conscious literary irony, the constant aetiologizing—do not for one moment affect his basic approach to the past.
Apollonius of Rhodes and the Spaces of Hellenism is a welcome book. Thalmann presents new readings of the Argonautica and a valuable theoretical framework for the investigation of Apollonius’ work, which might also be applied to other spatial epics. Well-written and evocative, it should help readers unfamiliar with modern theorizations of ...
Apollonius of Rhodes. $ 1.99. The epic poem ‘Argonautica’ by Apollonius of Rhodes is the only epic poem to survive from the Hellenistic period, telling of the fabled adventures of Jason and the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with ...
