A companion to Apollonius Rhodius (Brill, 2001)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-360) and index
Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editors' Introduction -- 1. Outlines of Apollonian Scholarship 1955-1999 -- 2. The Textual Tradition of the Argonautica -- 3. Myth and History in the Biography of Apollonius -- 4. Hellenistic Chronology: Theocritus, Callimachus, and Apollonius Rhodius -- 5. The Poetics of Narrative in the Argonautica -- 6. Apollonius Rhodius as "Inventor" of the Interior Monologue -- 7. The Similes of Apollonius Rhodius. Intertextuality and Epic Innovation -- 8. "Homeric" Formularity in the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes -- 9. Apollonius Rhodius as a Homeric Scholar -- 10. Apollonius as a Hellenistic Geographer -- 11. Apollonius and Virgil -- 12. "Est deus in nobis . . .": Medea meets her Maker -- 13. Echoes and Imitations of Apollonius Rhodius in Late Greek Epic -- 14. The Golden Fleece. Imperial Dream -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
This collection of essays, on the author of the "Argonautica", covers a wide range of issues from the history of the text and the problems of the poet's biography through questions of style, literary technique and intertextual relations to the epic's library and cultural reception