Green - The Argonautika by Apollonios Rhodios

In honor of beloved Virgil

O degli altri poeti onore e lume

Dante, Inferno

HELLENISTIC CULTURE AND SOCIETY

General Editors: Anthony W. Bulloch, Erich S. Gruen, A. A. Long, and Andrew F. Stewart

I. Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age, by Peter Green

II. Hellenism in the East: The Interaction of Greek and Non-Greek Civilizations from Syria to Central Asia after Alexander, edited by Amlie Kuhrt and Susan Sherwin-White

III. The Question of Eclecticism: Studies in Later Greek Philosophy, edited by J. M. Dillon and A. A. Long

IV. Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State, by Richard A. Billows

V. A History of Macedonia, by R. Malcolm Errington, translated by Catherine Errington

VI. Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86 B.C., by Stephen V. Tracy

VII. The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World, by Luciano Canfora

VIII. Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind, by Julia Annas

IX. Hellenistic History and Culture, edited by Peter Green

X. The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apollonius' Argonautica, by James J. Clauss

XI. Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics, by Andrew Stewart

XII. Images and Ideologies: Self-definition in the Hellenistic World, edited by A. W. Bulloch, E. S. Gruen, A. A. Long, and A. Stewart

XIII. From Samarkhand to Sardis: A New Approach to the Seleucid Empire, by Susan Sherwin-White and Amlie Kuhrt

XIV. Regionalism and Change in the Economy of Independent Delos, 314167 B.C., by Gary Reger

XV. Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East from 148 to 62 B.C., by Robert Kallet-Marx

XVI. Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius, by Arthur M. Eckstein

XVII. The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, The Islands, and Asia Minor, by Getzel M. Cohen

XVIII. Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, 33790 B.C., by Sheila L. Ager

XIX. Theocritus's Urban Mimes: Mobility, Gender, and Patronage, by Joan B. Burton

XX. Athenian Democracy in Transition: Attic Letter Cutters of 340 to 290 B.C., by Stephen V. Tracy

XXI. Pseudo-Hecataeus, On the Jews: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora, by Bezalel Bar-Kochva

XXII. Asylia: Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World, by Kent J. Rigsby

XXIII. The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy, R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goule-Caz, editors

XXIV. The Politics of Plunder: Aitolians and their Koinon in The Early Hellenistic Era, 279217 B.C., by Joseph B. Scholten

XXV. The Argonautika by Apollonios Rhodios, translated, with introduction, commentary, and glossary, by Peter Green

XXVI. Hellenistic Constructs: Culture, History, and Historiography, edited by Paul Cartledge, Peter Garnsey, and Erich Gruen

University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California

University of California Press, Ltd.
London, England

1997, 2007 by
Peter Green

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Apollonius Rhodius.
[Argonautica. English]
The Argonautika/by Apollonios Rhodios; translated, with introduction, commentary, and glossary, by Peter Green.
p. cm.(Hellenistic culture and society; 25)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 978-0-520-25393-3 (pbk: alk.)

1. Epic poetry, GreekTranslations into English. 2. Argonauts (Greek mythology)Poetry. 3. Jason (Greek mythology)Poetry. 4. Medea (Greek mythology)Poetry. I. Green, Peter, 1924 . II. Title. III. Series.
PA3872.E5 1997b
883'.01dc20 9624772
CIP

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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials,
ANSI Z39.481984.

To C. M. C. G.
amicae, uxori, collegae