Author: Donald Norman Levin
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Argonauts (Greek mythology)
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Levin
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004327126
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: James J. Clauss
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520360400
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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This revelatory exploration of Book One of the Argonautica rescues Jason from his status as the ineffectual hero of Apollonius' epic poem. James J. Clauss argues that by posing the question, "Who is the best of the Argonauts?" Apollonius redefines the epic hero and creates, in Jason, a man more realistic and less awesome than his Homeric predecessors, one who is vulnerable, dependent on the help of others, even morally questionable, yet ultimately successful. In bringing Apollonius' "curious and demanding poem" to life, Clauss illuminates two features of the poet's narrative style: his ubiquitous allusions to the poetry of others, especially Homer, and the carefully balanced structural organization of his episodes. The poet's subtextual interplay is explored, as is his propensity for underscoring the manipulation of the poetry of others through ring composition. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

Author: Donald Norman Levin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Argonauts (Greek mythology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: A. D. Morrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108492320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Argues that Herodotus is key to understanding genre and the relationship between past and present in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica.

Author: R. L. Hunter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521604383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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This book analyses Apollonuis' epic poem about the quest for the Golden Fleece.

Author: Malcolm Campbell
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004101586
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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This is a commentary on the third book of Apollonius' "Argonautica." It provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the work. Sustained analysis of the Homeric subtext sheds much new light on poetic motives and techniques.

Author: M.M. DeForest
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004329471
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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In an epic poem narrated by a self-declared opponent of epic poetry, the hero and his 50 Argonauts are thrust aside by the first heroine of third-person narrative and a forerunner of the powerful women in fiction.

Author: Malcolm Campbell
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004329463
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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This is a commentary on the third book of Apollonius' Argonautica, one of the most influential and admired products of the Hellenistic era. The author sets out to deal comprehensively with all important aspects of the work; in particular, proper attention is paid for the first time to the poet's constant manipulation of the two Homeric epics; many thorny problems of text and interpretation are examined afresh; and a wealth of hitherto unadduced illustrative material drawn from Greek and Roman poetry of various genres and periods is used to shed light on a number of issues. The volume closes with a series of detailed digestive indexes dealing with diction, models and imitations, language and style, metre, transmission, mythology, religion, geography, ethnography and aetiology.

Author: William G. Thalmann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199875715
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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Although Apollonius of Rhodes' extraordinary epic poem on the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece has begun to get the attention it deserves, it still is not well known to many readers and scholars. This book explores the poem's relation to the conditions of its writing in third century BCE Alexandria, where a multicultural environment transformed the Greeks' understanding of themselves and the world. Apollonius uses the resources of the imagination - the myth of the Argonauts' voyage and their encounters with other peoples - to probe the expanded possibilities and the anxieties opened up when definitions of Hellenism and boundaries between Greeks and others were exposed to question. Central to this concern with definitions is the poem's representation of space. Thalmann uses spatial theories from cultural geography and anthropology to argue that the Argo's itinerary defines space from a Greek perspective that is at the same time qualified. Its limits are exposed, and the signs with which the Argonauts mark space by their passage preserve the stories of their complex interactions with non-Greeks. The book closely considers many episodes in the narrative with regard to the Argonauts' redefinition of space and the implications of their actions for the Greeks' situation in Egypt, and it ends by considering Alexandria itself as a space that accommodated both Greek and Egyptian cultures.