Apollonius of Rhodes — Argonautica (Hellenistic epic tradition, c. 3rd century BCE)

1. Pindar’s Argonaut myth in Pythian 4

   Jan 1, 462 BCELabels: Pindar, Pythian 4

   • Britannica
   • Perseus

2. Euripides’ Medea dramatizes the mythic aftermath

   Jan 1, 431 BCELabels: Euripides, Medea

   • Britannica
   • Perseus

3. Apollonius of Rhodes flourishes in Ptolemaic Alexandria

   Jan 1, 270 BCELabels: Apollonius of, Alexandria

   • Britannica
   • Columbia Epics

4. Alexandrian librarianship tradition links Apollonius to the Library

   Jan 1, 260 BCELabels: Library of, Alexandrian scholarship

   • Britannica
   • Encyclopedia com

5. Composition of Apollonius’ Argonautica in the mid-3rd century BCE

   Jan 1, 250 BCELabels: Argonautica, Apollonius of

   • Columbia Epics
   • Britannica

6. Ancient scholia tradition develops around the Argonautica

   Jan 1, 50Labels: Scholia, Argonautica

   • Christie s
   • Glasgow Incunabula

7. Apollonius influences Roman epic through Valerius Flaccus

   Jan 1, 70Labels: Valerius Flaccus, Roman Argonautica

   • Britannica
   • Britannica

8. Medieval manuscript transmission preserves the Argonautica

   Jan 1, 1000Labels: Medieval manuscripts, Argonautica

   • Britannica
   • Glasgow Incunabula

9. Editio princeps prints the Greek Argonautica in Florence

   Jan 1, 1496Labels: Editio princeps, Janus Lascaris

   • Glasgow Incunabula
   • Christie s

10. Seaton’s Loeb edition provides Greek text with English translation

    Jan 1, 1912Labels: Loeb Edition, R C

    • NLA Catalogue
    • BMCR

11. Rieu’s Penguin translation broadens popular readership

    Jan 1, 1959Labels: E V, Penguin

    • BMCR
    • WorldCat

12. Hunter’s Oxford translation reframes the epic for modern study

    Jan 1, 1993Labels: Richard L, Oxford

    • BMCR
    • OUP

13. Green’s translation appears amid a wave of new English versions

    Jan 1, 1997Labels: Peter Green, Translation

    • BMCR
    • UC Press