Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Book III

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Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Book IIICambridge Greek and Latin Classics The Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes, composed in the third century BC and the only extant Greek epic between Homer and the later Roman empire, tells of Jason's successful expedition with the Argonauts to recover the Golden Fleece from Colchis on the Black Sea. Book III relates the story of Jason and Medea, a young Colchian princess who falls in love with Jason and helps him by magic to survive the ordeals imposed

In 399 BC Socrates was prosecuted

The extensive introduction covers topics including the role of Catullus' literary paramour Lesbia

Helpful student features include study questions

a number of critical notes on the readings adopted by his text

who is quite certain that he knows what justice is

Yet all the while the dutiful scribe was working on a very different - and dangerous - history to be published only once its author was safely in his grave

one's duty to oneself in reclaiming life from the impositions made upon the self

via a depiction of Aeneas's return by sea to his beleaguered Trojan camp

his particular connection to dramatic role-playing

Metamorphoses is an epic-style

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For a broad introduction to the many facets of the poem and to its author

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