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The Argonautika by Apollonios Rhodios
by Peter Green
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0520076869
- ISBN 13
- 9780520076860
- Seller
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About This Item
University of California Press, 1997. First. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. ***Signed by Author*** Very good 1st edition hardcover with teal paper and buckram to boards and gilt lettering on spine. Very good dust jacket with wear to head and tail of the spine. Clean text free of marks or underlining. Author's signature on the title page. Book is from the personal library of Professor Green. Includes maps, list of abbreviations, selected bibliography, glossary, and an index. 474 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The first commentary since 1912 on all four books of the Argonautika , the tale of Jason and the quest for the Golden Fleece, is accompanied by a dynamic translation of the Hellenistic epic which was a radical depature from the Homeric tradition, featuring a rather unsensational hero whose best quality is being a hit with the ladies, and a heroine who is a major chracter in her own right: a virgin sorceress whose magic brings Jason's triumph yet cannot save her from her own infatuation. The introduction discusses Apollonios in his Alexandrian world and proposes a new understanding of his poetic puropse and acheivement. The commentary is especially good at explaining mythical allusions which abound.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The first commentary since 1912 on all four books of the Argonautika , the tale of Jason and the quest for the Golden Fleece, is accompanied by a dynamic translation of the Hellenistic epic which was a radical depature from the Homeric tradition, featuring a rather unsensational hero whose best quality is being a hit with the ladies, and a heroine who is a major chracter in her own right: a virgin sorceress whose magic brings Jason's triumph yet cannot save her from her own infatuation. The introduction discusses Apollonios in his Alexandrian world and proposes a new understanding of his poetic puropse and acheivement. The commentary is especially good at explaining mythical allusions which abound.
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- The Anthropologists Closet
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 200563
- Title
- The Argonautika by Apollonios Rhodios
- Author
- Peter Green
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0520076869
- ISBN 13
- 9780520076860
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Ancient Greek Poetry, Golden Fleece, signed, Classical literature,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Greece;
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- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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