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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.
The Orphic Argonautica (Ancient Greek: Ὀρφέως Ἀργοναυτικά) is a Greek epic poem dating from the 4th century CE of unknown authorship. [24] It is narrated in the first person in the name of Orpheus and tells the story of Jason and the Argonauts.
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 ...
He was credited with the composition of a number of works, among which are a number of now-lost theogonies, including the theogony commented upon in the Derveni papyrus, [10] as well as extant works such the Orphic Hymns, the Orphic Argonautica, and the Lithica. [11] Shrines containing purported relics of Orpheus were regarded as oracles. [12]
The most reliable information we have about ancient poets is largely drawn from their own works. Unfortunately, Apollonius of Rhodes reveals nothing about himself. [4] Most of the biographical material comes from four sources: two are texts entitled Life of Apollonius found in the scholia on his work (Vitae A and B); a third is an entry in the 10th-century encyclopaedia the Suda; and fourthly ...
From perhaps as early as late antiquity, the Orphic Hymns were preserved in a codex which also included works such as the Orphic Argonautica and the Homeric Hymns. The first codex containing the Orphic Hymns to reach Western Europe arrived in Italy in the first half of the 15th century, and in 1500 the first edition of the Hymns was published ...
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. [4]
Meisner, Dwayne A., Orphic Tradition and the Birth of the Gods, Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-19-066352-0. Google Books. Orphic Argonautica in Argonautica, Hymni Libellus de lapidibus et fragmenta cum notis, Johann Matthias Gesner, Leipzig: Sumtibus Caspari Fritsch, 1764. Internet Archive.