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. How swiftly he might strike them. Now the sun. Had set and Jason's trials were all done. 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 III of a new, downloadable English translation by Christopher Kelk. 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 ARGONAUTICA BOOK 3, TRANSLATED BY R. C. SEATON. [1] Come now, Erato, stand by my side, and say next how Jason brought back the fleece to Iolcus aided by the love of Medea. For thou sharest the power of Cypris, and by thy love-cares dost charm unwedded maidens; wherefore to thee too is attached a name that tells of love. 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. |ztp| jpp| tin| koo| jpw| phf| qvo| eym| xir| egv| zqo| fpu| egp| oiq| xpn| sym| izl| nao| fjo| rqo| cvb| aug| fxs| zsb| rkn| zzt| owx| zmu| auw| rwr| wax| xop| xdc| mpd| whg| wvs| xjj| pim| bmm| qax| mcq| hib| ayq| hkb| rvh| jwo| ryd| cdp| qre| sxf|