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Gaius Valerius Flaccus (/ ˈ f l æ k ə s /; died c. AD 90) was a 1st-century Roman poet who flourished during the "Silver Age" under the Flavian dynasty, [1] [2] and wrote a Latin Argonautica that owes a great deal to Apollonius of Rhodes' more famous epic.
Henry George Blomfield praised Noble's verse translation of the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus in the preface to his own prose translation: . I must record my deep and lasting sense of gratitude to the work of a most undeservedly forgotten poet, Thomas Noble, the author, already referred to, of the only existing translation in any language of any part of Valerius Flaccus.
The Argonautica (Greek: Ἀργοναυτικά, romanized: Argonautika) is a Greek epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius in the 3rd century BC. The only entirely surviving Hellenistic epic (though Callimachus' Aetia is substantially extant through fragments), the Argonautica tells the myth of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve ...
Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., ... Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb ...
Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., ... Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb ...
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
[48] [65] In the 1st century CE, another Latin poet Valerius Flaccus wrote in Argonautica that there was a huge Triton at each side of Neptune's chariot, holding the reins of horses. [66] [22] And Statius (1st century) makes a Triton figurehead adorn the prow of the Argo. [68]
Valerius Flaccus recounts this account in the following passage: As Cyzicus upon his swift horse shook Dindymus where votaries revel with bloodstained arms, and wearied the woods, he was betrayed by his too great love of the chase; for with his javelin he slew a lion that was wont to bear its mistress [i.e. Cybele] through the cities of Phrygia ...