Untimely epic: Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica

Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica is a voyage across time as well as space. The Argonauts encounter monsters, nymphs, shepherds, and kings who represent earlier stages of the cosmos or human society; they are given glimpses into the future, and themselves effect changes in the world through which...

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Main Author: Phillips, Tom 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2020
Series:Oxford scholarship online
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848561.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848561.001.0001
Summary:Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica is a voyage across time as well as space. The Argonauts encounter monsters, nymphs, shepherds, and kings who represent earlier stages of the cosmos or human society; they are given glimpses into the future, and themselves effect changes in the world through which they travel. Readers undergo a still more complex form of temporal transport, enabled not just to imagine themselves into the deep past, but to examine the layers of poetic and intellectual history from which Apollonius crafts his poem. Taking its lead from ancient critical preoccupations with poetry's ethical significance, this book argues that the Argonautica produces an understanding of time and temporal experience which ramifies variously in readers' lives
Item Description:Also issued in print: 2020. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (368 Seiten)
ISBN:9780191883019
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198848561.001.0001

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