A Companion To Apollonius Rhodius 9004117520, 9789004117525

Table of contents :
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
List of Contributors......Page 9
Editors' Introduction......Page 13
1. Outlines of Apollonian Scholarship 1955-1999......Page 17
2. The Textual Tradition of the Argonautica......Page 43
3. Myth & History in the Biography of Apollonius......Page 67
4. Hellenistic Chronology: Theocritus, Callimachus & Apollonius Rhodius......Page 89
5. The Poetics of Narrative in the Argonautica......Page 109
6. Apollonius Rhodius as "Inventor" of the Interior Monologue......Page 143
7. The Similes of Apollonius Rhodius. Intertextuality & Epic Innovation......Page 163
8. "Homeric" Formularity in the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes......Page 187
9. Apollonius Rhodius as a Homeric Scholar......Page 209
10. Apollonius as a Hellenistic Geographer......Page 233
11. Apollonius & Virgil......Page 253
12. "Est deus in nobis . . .": Medea meets her Maker......Page 277
13. Echoes & Imitations of Apollonius Rhodius in Late Greek Epic......Page 301
14. The Golden Fleece. Imperial Dream......Page 325
Bibliography......Page 357
Index......Page 377

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A COMPANION TO APOLLONIUS RHODIUS

MNEMOSYNE BIBLIOTHEGA CLASSIGA BATAVA COLLEGERUNT H. PINKSTER • H.W. PLEKET CJ. RUIJGH • D.M. SCHENKEVELD - P H . SCHRIJVERS BIBLIOTHECAE FASCICULOS EDENDOS CURAVIT CJ. RUIJGH, KLASSIEK SEMINARIUM, OUDE TURFMARKT 129, AMSTERDAM

SUPPLEMENTUM DUCENTESIMUM DECIMUM SEPTIMUM TH. D. PAPANGHELIS & A. RENGAKOS (EDS.)

A COMPANION TO APOLLONIUS RHODIUS

A COMPANION TO APOLLONIUS RHODIUS EDITED BY

THEODORE D. PAPANGHELIS AND

ANTONIOS RENGAKOS

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1.725

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1.788

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