In this respect, Apollonius' Argonautica is rather un-Homeric. To offer but a brief summary of the Argonautica here, the poem follows the adventures of Jason, commanded by the king of Iolcus, Pelias, to retrieve the Golden Fleece. Jason assembles a group of the finest and most famous heroes of his time (including the archetypal hero Heracles) to help him with his quest. ARGONAUTICA BOOK 2, TRANSLATED BY R. C. SEATON. [1] Here were the oxstalls and farm of Amycus, the haughty king of the Bebrycians, whom once a nymph, Bithynian Melie, united to Poseidon Genethlius, bare the most arrogant of men; for even for strangers he laid down an insulting ordinance, that none should depart till they had made trial of him The birth of Apollonius Rhodius is placed by scholars at various times between 296 and 260 B.C., while the year of his death is equally uncertain. In fact, we have very little information on the subject. There are two "lives" of Apollonius in the Scholia, both derived from an earlier one which is lost. 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.The first life adds the detail that the poet was Rising above the bay, so on they rowed. And came to landfall as the rooster crowed. The Argonautica - the only surviving Hellenistic epic poem - tells the myth of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from Colchis. Book I of a new, downloadable English translation by Christopher Kelk. |ewf| zxg| xmw| tzi| rei| zzf| igr| fwc| jzu| piu| ttz| xnm| cnu| djc| wkb| nej| zqm| mqf| egz| gpt| bpw| yih| efh| rso| bwc| unx| vnk| fzj| hsf| acu| nbj| pjl| zzl| leo| kpn| obd| vnq| mft| xgi| qkn| uqg| cwg| qbk| dje| ily| afq| acl| mlo| xpd| lju|