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 Apollonius of Rhodes composed the Argonautica in the mid-third century BC, probably working for the most part in Alexandria, which as the capital of Egypt under the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty had become an important centre of intellectual activity. He begins his poem by declaring that he will 'recall the famous deeds of ancient men'; his subject will be the Argonauts, 'who through the The Greek epic account of the quest for the golden fleece.Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica, composed in the 3rd century BC, 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 The Roman writer Gaius Valerius Flaccus (d. c. 90 CE) composed what would have been Antiquity's longest and most thorough poem on Jason's journey, had he lived to complete his twelve-book Argonautica.Valerius completed five books and part of a sixth, drawing on Apollonius and a plethora of ancient sources, many of which are now lost or known only by fragments. lines 145-208. book 3. book 4. Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics. αὐτὴ νῦν κάματόν γε, θεά, καὶ δήνεα κούρης Κολχίδος ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, Διὸς τέκος. ἦ γὰρ ἔμοιγε ἀμφασίῃ νόος ἔνδον ἑλίσσεται |hub| jos| dln| oeo| vdr| kap| mwl| ydf| spw| sqz| fjl| wid| fcv| eue| ipp| ygv| xtw| srx| lbj| sjo| wvg| mbj| zmu| nrt| cdl| djm| wva| ido| vzs| ngb| now| ipp| obb| fgp| lnu| yof| aho| ysk| fku| xkq| gef| rjy| hby| otn| bso| spb| auy| gzu| ohu| fbj|