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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 RHODIUS was a Greek epic poet and scholar of the library of Alexandria who fourished in the C3rd B.C. He was the author of a celebrated epic entitled the Argonautica which described the journey of the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece.
Jan 9, 2020 · The Medea of Apollonius is the direct precursor of the Dido of Virgil, and it is the pathos and passion of the fourth book of the “Aeneid” that keep alive many a passage of Apollonius.
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.
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.
Apollonius of Rhodes, (born c. 295 bc), Greek poet and grammarian. He served as librarian of the famous Library of Alexandria.
Apollonius (1) Rhodius, a major literary figure of 3rd-century bce Alexandria (1), and poet of the Argonautica, the only extant Greek hexameter epic written between Homer and the Roman imperial period.
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Apollonius Rhodius' epic poem, the Argonautica, is one of the most important and influential literary productions of the Hellenistic period. This book shows how the retelling of a heroic adventure set in the generation before the Trojan War engages the political, religious, and ethical dynamics of its day by alluding to the real-world context ...
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