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Apollonius of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος Apollṓnios Rhódios; Latin: Apollonius Rhodius; fl. first half of 3rd century BC) was an ancient Greek author, best known for the Argonautica, an epic poem about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece.
Apollonius of Rhodes (born c. 295 bc) was a Greek poet and grammarian who was the author of the Argonautica. The two lives contained in the Laurentian manuscript of the Argonautica say that Apollonius was a pupil of Callimachus; that he gave a recitation of the Argonautica at Alexandria; and that when this proved a failure he retired to Rhodes.
Apollonius of Rhodes, (born c. 295 bc), Greek poet and grammarian. He served as librarian of the famous Library of Alexandria.
“The Argonautica” is the best known work by the 3rd Century BCE Hellenistic poet and scholar, Apollonius of Rhodes. It is an epic poem in the style of Homer, and tells the story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece.
Apollonius of Rhodes, also known as Apollonius Rhodius (early third century B.C.E. - after 246 B.C.E.), was an epic poet, scholar, and director of the Library of Alexandria.
Jan 11, 2022 · Apollonius of Rhodes (Apollonius Rhodius) was an innovative and influential Hellenistic Greek epic poet, best known as the author of the epic poem “The Argonautica”, the popular myth of Jason and the Argonauts’quest for the Golden Fleece.
Apollonius of Rhodes ( Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος Apollṓnios Rhódios; Latin: Apollonius Rhodius; fl. first half of 3rd century BC) was an ancient Greek author, best known for the Argonautica, an epic poem about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece.
Apollonius of Rhodes composed the Argonautica in the mid-third century BC, probably working for the most part in Alexandria, which as the capital of Egypt under the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty had become an important centre of intellectual activity.
Dec 14, 2009 · Apollonius of Rhodes (3rd century BCE) is the author of the Argonautica, the only full-scale epic surviving from the seven centuries that separate Virgil’s Aeneid from Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
Apollonius writes an epic story in dactylic hexameter, closely imitating the Homeric diction throughout his poem and (rather heavily) drawing from the Homeric epics in ways that are still being studied after centuries of scholarship on the Argonautica.
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