Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Argonautica_by_Apollonius_of_Rhodes
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:poetry
gptkbp:adaptation gptkb:Argonaut_myth
gptkbp:author gptkb:Apollonius_of_Rhodes
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin Ancient Greece
gptkbp:dateWritten 3rd century BCE
gptkbp:firstPublished 1496
gptkbp:genre gptkb:poetry
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes
gptkbp:influenced Roman epic poetry
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Homer's_Iliad
gptkb:Homer's_Odyssey
gptkbp:language gptkb:Ancient_Greek
gptkbp:literaryPeriod gptkb:Hellenistic_period
gptkbp:locationOfComposition gptkb:Alexandria
gptkbp:notableCharacter gptkb:Orpheus
gptkb:Jason
gptkb:Medea
gptkb:Castor_and_Pollux
gptkb:Heracles
gptkbp:notableFeature Focus on Medea's psychology
Modern narrative style for its time
Use of Alexandrian scholarship
gptkbp:relatedWork gptkb:Pindar's_Pythian_4
gptkb:Argonautica_Orphica
gptkbp:setting Ancient Greece
gptkbp:structure Four books
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Golden_Fleece
gptkb:Argonauts
gptkb:Jason
gptkbp:survivingWorks Numerous ancient manuscripts
gptkbp:theme Fate
Love
Adventure
Divine intervention
Heroic quest
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:Peter_Green_(1997)
gptkb:R.C._Seaton_(1912)
E.V. Rieu (1959)
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Orpheus
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5