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Cambridge University Press Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography

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Product Description This book examines the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes through one aspect of its relationship with other texts. The particular intertextual relationship examined is that with the Histories of Herodotus, focusing on the presence of the latter text in the former in terms of the poem's employment of characteristics and features of historiographical discourse, narrative structures, presentation and description of characters, aetiology and patterns of explanation, portrayal of ethnic groups, depiction of kingship and tyranny; the relationship between particular passages in both texts is also explored. The consequences for the interpretation of the poem are profound: the Argonautica employs Herodotean historiography as a key intertext in order to manipulate and frustrate the reader's generic expectations for an epic poem and to complicate the relationship between the contemporary Hellenistic Mediterranean (and its kingdoms) and the distant mythological Argonautic past. Review 'An excellent resource for those engaged in advanced study of classics.' S. M. Burstein, Choice'… this is a valuable contribution to the study of Herodotus and Apollonius and the ways that historiography in general and Herodotus in particular can influence epic.' Laura Marshall, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Book Description Argues that Herodotus is key to understanding genre and the relationship between past and present in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica. About the Author A. D. Morrison is Professor of Greek at the University of Manchester. He is the author of The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry (Cambridge, 2007) and Performances and Audiences in Pindar's Sicilian Victory Odes (2007) and co-editor of Ancient Letters (2007) and Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (2013). He is currently working on a commentary on selected poems of Callimachus for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series and a 'New Survey' on Hellenistic poetry for Greece & Rome and is co-directing the AHRC project on Ancient Letter Collections (2016–21).

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1108492320
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Ancient History & Civilisation > Greece
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Release Date: 30 January 2020
Listed Since: 04 July 2019

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