Jason and the Argonauts

Apollonius of Rhodes, Aaron Poochigian, Benjamin Acosta-Hughes , Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

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Penguin
02 January 2015

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Poetry by individual poets

King Pelias insisted, so they drove the tautly fitted Argo up through the narrows of the Pontic Sea and past the Cobalt Clashing Rocks to win the golden fleece.

Now in a riveting verse translation, Jason and the Argonauts (also known as the Argonautica) is the only surviving full account of Jason's voyage on the Argo in quest of the golden fleece with the aid of the sorceress-princess Medea.

Written in Alexandria in the third century BCE, Apollonius' strikingly modern telling of a classic myth is an exemplary product of an emerging multicultural metropolis. Though Apollonius used the manner and matter of Homeric epics, he wrote from a personal viewpoint, critically observing one of the most beloved heroes of Greek mythology. In its combination of the fantastical and the real, the Argonautica is truly without exact parallel in classical or contemporary Greek literature and provides an experience close to magical.

By: Apollonius of Rhodes
Introduction by: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
Translated by: Aaron Poochigian, Aaron Poochigian
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 220g
ISBN: 9780143106869
ISBN 10: 0143106864
Publication Date: 02 January 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Jason and the Argonauts

Consistently fascinating, an amalgam of the mythic and the modern with an occasion dash of Baron Munchausen or Marvel Comics. --Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World An accessible, nimble, and often beautiful edition of Apollonios Rhodios's epic. --Tor.com At every turn, Poochigian...improves on every English-language translation of the Argonautica that's come before him. --Open Letters Monthly Aaron Poochigian's new translation of Apollonius of Rhodes' Jason & the Argonauts demands to be read aloud--lines of perfect, unforced iambic pentameter make it as lyrical as Shelley or Frost. --Smartish Pace -Consistently fascinating, an amalgam of the mythic and the modern with an occasion dash of Baron Munchausen or Marvel Comics.- --Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World -An accessible, nimble, and often beautiful edition of Apollonios Rhodios's epic.- --Tor.com -At every turn, Poochigian...improves on every English-language translation of the Argonautica that's come before him. --Open Letters Monthly -Aaron Poochigian's new translation of Apollonius of Rhodes' Jason & the Argonauts demands to be read aloud--lines of perfect, unforced iambic pentameter make it as lyrical as Shelley or Frost.- --Smartish Pace