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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 ...
The 1st-century AD Latin poet Valerius Flaccus, in his Argonautica, gives a different reason for Aphrodite (Venus) causing the Lemnian men to reject their wives. He says it was because of the goddess' anger with her husband, the god Hephaestus (Vulcan)—who had a home on Lemnos—for his having caught her in a tryst with Ares (Mars). [ 20 ]
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 ...
— Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.204; translation by J. H. Mozley Later in Book 6, Valerius, describing the crashing chariots of the warring Colchian brothers Aeetes and Perses , has: "the curved blades doth discord [ discordia ] entangle and lacerate the panic-stricken cars", then goes on to liken the battle between the two brothers to ...
Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann ...