- Argonauts (Greek mythology), Translations into English, Poetry, Greek Epic poetry
Jason and the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece is probably the oldest extant Greek myth. Homer referred to it as something "familiar to all."
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Epic, classical in form, prestige and grave.
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Apollonios Rhodios
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- University of California Press, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781479128884
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“Starting from you, Phoibos, the deeds of those old-time mortals I shall relate, who by way of the Black Sea's mouth and through the cobalt-dark rocks, at King Pelias's commandment, in search of the Golden Fleece drove tight-thwarted Argo.”
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