The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous Colchian princess, Medea. The only extant Greek epic poem to bridge the gap between Homer and late antiquity, it is a major product of the brilliant world of the Ptolemaic court at Alexandria, written by Apollonius of Rhodes in the ...
Apollonius Rhodius's "Argonautica", composed in the 3rd century BCE, 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 period ...
Apollonius was a Greek grammarian and epic poet of Alexandria in Egypt and lived late in the 3rd century and early in the 2nd century BCE. While still young he composed his extant epic poem of four books on the story of the Argonauts. When this work failed to win acceptance he went to Rhodes where he not only did well as a rhetorician but also ...
Beginning with thee, O Phoebus, I will recount the famous deeds of men of old, who, at the behest of King Pelias, down through the mouth of Pontus and between the Cyanean rocks, sped well-benched Argo in quest of the golden fleece.
Apollonius of Rhodes, also known as Apollonius Rhodius (early 3rd century BCE-after 246 BCE), was an epic poet, scholar, and director of the Library of Alexandria. He is best known for his epic poem The Argonautica, which told the mythological story of Jason and the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece, and which is one of the chief works in the ...
Binding: *Pictorial Softcover/Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780146001635ISBN:014600163X
Description: * Very Good. 24mo-over 5"-5¾" tall. Penguin 60s Classic. Pocket sixzed book. Paperback/pictorial softcover, in very good general condition. A solid, tightly bound and clean copy. Expanded report on condition, digital scans, supplied promptly on request. read more
Binding: *Pictorial Softcover/Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780146001628ISBN:0146001621
Description: * Very Good. 24mo-over 5"-5¾" tall. Penguin 60s Classic. Pocket sixzed book. Paperback/pictorial softcover, in very good general condition. A solid, tightly bound and clean copy. Expanded report on condition, digital scans, supplied promptly on request. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: George Bell and Sons, 1889.
Description: -Small octavo, navy blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The binding is bumped, rubbed & lightly stained with some tiny white marks & with white staining to the rear cover. xxiii, [i] & 209 pages, plus a colophon & a 30-page publisher's catalog. The page edges & catalog are darkened. The top end of the fore-edge is stained as well as the top corners & top edges of the catalog pages, with light staining to the last few leaves of the text. Good. First edition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781104986872ISBN:1104986876
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 11 by 8 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00480 pages) lang=german accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Description: 1957, Limited Editions Club, HB (in slip-case) 307pp, 13" x 9 3/4", illustrated by A. Tassos, 280/1500 signed by illustrator Tassos, Fine/G slip-case. read more
Binding: linen
Publisher: Limited Editions Club
Date Published: 1957
Description: Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Folio (9-3/8" x 12-3/4") bound in light gray Greek linen divided into panels with a drawing of the Argo in the central panel. Translated by Edward Coleridge with an introduction by Moses Hadas. Printed on paper made in Greece with illustrations by A. Tassos based on ancient Greek models. Copy #325 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Mild sunning to the spine. read more
Binding: Full-Leather
Publisher: Easton Press
Date Published: 1999
Description: As New. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Full brown leather binding with gold decorations; all page edges gilt, and silk moire endpages. FINE condition, but there is a faint owner blind stamp on the front moire endpage. Also included is a "Notes from the Archives' sheet. 307 pages. read more
Edition: Reprint Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Heritage Press
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very good. Very Good book, None, as issued dust jacket. Prior owner's ex libris stamp on inside front cover. All else like new (Slip case discolored by sunligh). read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Heritage Press
Date Published: 1960
Description: A. Tassos. Very Good. No Jacket. 307 pages. color illustrations. No slipcase. "Argonautica, or, The Quest of Jason for the Golden Fleece, the epic poem first set down in the ancient Greek tongue by Apollonius of Rhodes in the third century B.C., together with the translation into English prose by Edward P. Coleridge with a preface by Moses Hadas. " Includes both Greek and English text. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Heritage Press
Date Published: 1960
Description: Illustrated by A. Tassos. Near Fine. Crisp clean book. Printed on Acid-free paper. Squared binding. Laid in Sandglass Letter. In original slipcase in good shape--slipcase has suntanning around opening edge and on sides. It is strong & sturdy. Note: Spine is NOT suntanned, a common problem with the Heritage Press books. 8vo 8"-9" tall 307 pages Hardboard book in a slipcase. read more
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