Argonautica: Book IV
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9781107636750
- ISBN10 1107636752
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 348
- Sammlung Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics #
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2015
- Sprache Griechisch (Bis 1453)
- Bindung Taschenbuch
Argonautica: Book IV
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
Apollonius' epic, the Argonautica, is not just a masterpiece of Hellenistic poetry drawing on the entire tradition of previous Greek literature, but was enormously influential on Latin epic, especially Virgil's Aeneid. Book IV tells the story of the Argonauts' return to Greece with the Golden Fleece, their nightmarish trips through the uncharted rivers of central Europe and the desert wastes of North Africa, the terrible killing of Medea's brother, and the anguish of the young girl which foreshadows her bloody future. This is the first modern commentary in English.
Problems of syntax and language are fully explained, and there is a sophisticated discussion of the poem as literature. It will be useful for advanced undergraduates and graduate students studying Greek poetry, as well as of interest to scholars.