The story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece is one of the oldest and most familiar tales in classical literature. Apollonius of Rhodes wrote the best-known version, in Greek, in the third century B.C.E. The Latin poet Gaius Valerius Flaccus began his own interpretation of the story in the first century of the Christian era, but he died before completing it.
With The Voyage of the -Argo, - the acclaimed poet and translator David Slavitt recovers for modern readers the only surviving work of this little-known writer. The result is an engaging...
The story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece is one of the oldest and most familiar tales in classical literature. Ap...
A text (with apparatus criticus), translation, and commentary, with introduction, of the first book of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, an unfinished Roman epic extending to eight books and several thousand lines, written in the Flavian period (69-96 CE). The commentary addresses both textual and semantic matters and broader questions of stylistics, poetics, thematics, and cultural context. Particularly close attention is paid to Valerius' choice of diction, his sophisticated use of figures and tropes, his often sly erudition, the recurring and strategic resort to subtle intertextual gestures,...
A text (with apparatus criticus), translation, and commentary, with introduction, of the first book of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, an unfinished Ro...
In der Nachfolge von Vergils 'Aeneis', des romischen Nationalepos der Augusteischen Zeit, schreibt Valerius Flaccus seine 'Argonautica', das zweite Fatum-Epos der romischen Literatur, im Dienst der Rom-Idee und Herrschaftsideologie der Flavischen Dynastie. Im Rahmen des gottlichen Weltenplanes Iuppiters erfullen Iason und seine Mannschaft eine weltgeschichtliche Mission: Mit der abenteuerreichen Heimholung des Goldenen Vlieses aus Colchis geht die Macht von Asien zunachst auf Griechenland uber, um spater teleologisch auf Rom ubertragen zu werden. Daher sind die Argonauten wie Aeneas von einem...
In der Nachfolge von Vergils 'Aeneis', des romischen Nationalepos der Augusteischen Zeit, schreibt Valerius Flaccus seine 'Argonautica', das zweite Fa...
