The Argonautica (Greek: Ἀργοναυτικά, romanized: Argonautika) is a Greek epic poem written by Apollonius Rhodius in the 3rd century BC. The only entirely...
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The Orphic Argonautica or Argonautica Orphica (Greek: Ὀρφέως Ἀργοναυτικά) is a Greek epic poem dating from the 4th century CE. It is narrated in the first...
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The Argonautica is the title of several epic poems which tell the story of Jason and the Argonauts: Argonautica, by Apollonius of Rhodes, a Greek epic...
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worship it, while according to a scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica, Caeneus himself worshipped his spear rather than the gods. In either...
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Argonauts (category Characters in the Argonautica)
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.54; Hyginus, Fabulae 14 Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.176 Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.367 Strabo. Geographica...
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with a speedboat shaken loose from the Argonautica. The mercenaries take over, intending to rob the Argonautica's passengers and vault, before sinking the...
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Medea (category Characters in the Argonautica)
known from Euripides's tragedy Medea and Apollonius of Rhodes's epic Argonautica. As a daughter of King Aeëtes she is a mythical granddaughter of the...
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Jason (category Characters in the Argonautica)
works in the classical world of Greece and Rome, including the epic poem Argonautica and the tragedy Medea. In the modern world, Jason has emerged as a character...
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Valerius Flaccus (poet) (redirect from Argonautica (Valerius Flaccus))
during the "Silver Age" under the Flavian dynasty, and wrote a Latin Argonautica that owes a great deal to Apollonius of Rhodes' more famous epic. The...
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Apollonius of Rhodes (section Argonautica)
half of 3rd century BC) was an ancient Greek author, best known for the Argonautica, an epic poem about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden...
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Orpheus; he came to Thebes and became a Theban." Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.2.23–34: "First then let us name Orpheus whom once Calliope bare, it...
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Chiron (category Characters in the Argonautica)
theoi.com. Retrieved 2022-07-08. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.554; Orphic Argonautica 375 ff. "APOLLODORUS, THE LIBRARY BOOK 3 - Theoi Classical...
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Talos (category Characters in the Argonautica)
(1996), "The most detailed treatment in literature is to be found in the Argonautica [3rd century BC] ... however, we have detailed images of the episode...
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playfully suggested in the invocation to Erato that begins Book III of his Argonautica. Erato is the Muse of lyric poetry, particularly erotic poetry, and mimic...
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the Phrygian Great Mother, with whom she was later identified. In the Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes, the fusion of Rhea and Phrygian Cybele is completed...
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Gilgamesh Greek Literature: Odyssey The Histories (Herodotus) On the Ocean Argonautica The Histories (Polybius) Metamorphoses Geography Aeneid Tākitimu...
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Rhodes, Argonautica 1.609-626. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.242–303. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.249–259. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.265–280...
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Hypsipyle (category Characters in the Argonautica)
Flaccus, Argonautica 2.249–259. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.265–280. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.280–303. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.306–310...
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Alcinous (category Characters in the Argonautica)
Orphic Argonautica 1288 Apollodorus, 1.9.25–26 Homer, Odyssey 6.12 & 6.62 compare Hyginus, Fabulae 125 & 126 Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated...
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Apollonius Rhodius, The Argonautica 2. 750 ff (trans. Coleridge) (Greek epic poetry C3rd BC) Apollonius Rhodius, The Argonautica 2. 777 ff Apollonius Rhodius...
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Dionysiaca 35.72 ff. Ovid, Heroides 18.160 Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1310 Servius on Virgil, Georgics 1.437 Statius, Thebaid 7.335 ff. Ovid...
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Orphism (religion) (section Orphic Argonautica)
the Neoplatonic Greek scholar Constantine Lascaris (who found the poem Argonautica Orphica) considered a Pythagorean Orpheus. Bertrand Russell (1947) noted:...
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Circe (category Characters in the Argonautica)
Rhodius: Argonautica, Loeb Classical Library (2008), 4.654–661 Argonautica 3.309–313, translation by W. H. Race, Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica, Loeb Classical...
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Gilgamesh Greek Literature: Odyssey The Histories (Herodotus) On the Ocean Argonautica The Histories (Polybius) Metamorphoses Geography Aeneid Tākitimu...
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Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1235 citing Pherecydes Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2. 1231 ff Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1. 554 Callimachus...
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Orpheus (category Characters in the Argonautica)
of works, including several theogonies, the Orphic Hymns, the Orphic Argonautica, the Lithica and the Hexameter poem. Shrines containing purported relics...
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Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.27.2. scholia in Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 4.1399. Scholiast on Euripides, Hippolytus 742 (Cavarezan, p. 288) [=...
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Hecate (category Characters in the Argonautica)
Diggers (or The Root Cutters), and an ancient commentary on Apollonius's Argonautica (3.1214) describes her as having a head surrounded by serpents, twining...
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Hera (category Characters in the Argonautica)
Socrates Plato Aratus Plutarch Plotinus Iamblichus Julian (emperor) Texts Argonautica Bibliotheca Corpus Hermeticum Delphic maxims Derveni papyrus Dionysiaca...
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by Apollonius Rhodius to the Stymphalian birds in Argonautica 2. 1054. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2. 1054 ff (trans. Coleridge) (Greek epic poetry...
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