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The Orphic Argonautica or Argonautica Orphica (Ancient Greek: Ὀρφέως Ἀργοναυτικά) is a Greek epic poem dating from the 4th century CE. [1] It is narrated in the first person in the name of Orpheus and tells the story of Jason and the Argonauts. It is not known who the real author is.
[nb 8] The epiphany of Apollo in book 2, over the island of Thynia, is followed by an account of the god's deeds and worship (2.686–719) that recalls an account in Callimachus's Hymn to Apollo (97–104), and book 4 ends in a cluster of aitia, including the origins of the island Thera, the naming of Anaphe, and the water-carrying festival on ...
The Argonautica is an epic poem probably intended to be in eight books (though intended totals of ten and twelve books, the latter corresponding to Virgil's Aeneid, an important poetic model, have also been proposed) written in traditional dactylic hexameters, which recounts Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece.
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.
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Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Book III (Cambridge, 1989) The 'Argonautica' of Apollonius: literary studies (Cambridge, 1993) Theocritus and the Archaeology of Greek Poetry (Cambridge, 1996) Studies in Heliodorus (Cambridge, 1998) Theocritus. A Selection (Cambridge, 1999) Theocritus: Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus (Berkeley, 2003)
Illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). The Gegenees (from Greek: Γηγενεής Gēgeneēs; Γηγενής Gēgenēs, "earth-born" or "indigenous") were a race of six-armed humanoids [1] who inhabited the same island as the Doliones in the ancient Greek epic Argonautica. [2]
The Argonautica is the title of several epic poems which tell the story of Jason and the Argonauts: Argonautica , by Apollonius of Rhodes, a Greek epic poem written in the 3rd century BCE Argonautica , by Gaius Valerius Flaccus , a Latin epic poem written shortly after 70 CE.