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Title A companion to Apollonius Rhodius / edited by Theodore D. Papanghelis and Antonios Rengakos
Published Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 362 pages)
Series Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 217
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 217. 0169-8958
Contents Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editors' Introduction -- 1. Outlines of Apollonian Scholarship 1955-1999 -- 2. The Textual Tradition of the Argonautica -- 3. Myth and History in the Biography of Apollonius -- 4. Hellenistic Chronology: Theocritus, Callimachus, and Apollonius Rhodius -- 5. The Poetics of Narrative in the Argonautica -- 6. Apollonius Rhodius as "Inventor" of the Interior Monologue -- 7. The Similes of Apollonius Rhodius. Intertextuality and Epic Innovation -- 8. "Homeric" Formularity in the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes -- 9. Apollonius Rhodius as a Homeric Scholar -- 10. Apollonius as a Hellenistic Geographer -- 11. Apollonius and Virgil -- 12. "Est deus in nobis . . .": Medea meets her Maker -- 13. Echoes and Imitations of Apollonius Rhodius in Late Greek Epic -- 14. The Golden Fleece. Imperial Dream -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
Summary This collection of essays, on the author of the "Argonautica", covers a wide range of issues from the history of the text and the problems of the poet's biography through questions of style, literary technique and intertextual relations to the epic's library and cultural reception
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-360) and index
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Subject Apollonius, Rhodius. Argonautica.
Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character) -- In literature
SUBJECT Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character) fast
Jason (Mythological character) fast
Argonautica (Apollonius, Rhodius) fast
Subject Greek poetry, Hellenistic -- History and criticism
Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
Argonauts (Greek mythology) in literature.
Jason (Greek mythology) in literature
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Argonauts (Greek mythology) in literature
Epic poetry, Greek
Greek poetry, Hellenistic
Literature
Argonautica (Apollonius Rhodius)
Literatura grega clássica (história e crítica)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Papanghelis, Theodore D
Rengakos, Antonios
ISBN 1417536683
9781417536689
9789004117525
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9047400461
9789047400462
6610464324
9786610464326
1280464321
9781280464324