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Title: Jason and the Golden Fleece: (The Argonautica) (Oxford World's Classics) by Apollonius, Richard Hunter, Apollonius of Rhodes ISBN: 0-19-283583-1 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Prose rendering of an important epic
Comment: I don't approve of poems being translated into prose form as a matter of principle. In the case of this poem, which has so many features derived from Homer (e. g. Apollonius' hero list as compared to Homer's ship list or the description of Jason's shield after that of Achilles'), it would be even more interesting to have a line-by-line rendering. Were it not for this and Mr. Hunter's translation would be just nice as his clear and useful introduction is. Therefore I have to go for another translation which suits my requirements, I guess Peter Green's. By the way, this same problem unfortunately seems to occur in the Loeb Classical Collection translations of poetry.
Rating: 5
Summary: The antithesis to Homer's Odissey
Comment: This is an anti-heroic epic,whit a protagonist that is a whiny wimp, an anaemic and weak leader,who unaccountably wins the love of the Morgan le Fay of Colchis: Medea, the real protagonist and heroine of the poem.Her story is narrated whit alexandrine sensibility,less tragedy than pathos. But the charm of the poem lies in the strange,dreamlike athmosphere. Many scenes (like the appearance of Apollo at dawn ) are rendered as if seen in an hypnagogic vision. For the heroes of old ,Apollonius seen to say, life was really a dream.
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Title: Metamorphoses by Ovid, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney ISBN: 019283472X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Library of Greek Mythology (Oxford World's Classics) by Apollodorus, Robin Hard ISBN: 0192839241 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Aeneid by Virgil, Robert Fitzgerald ISBN: 0679729526 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: June, 1990 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough, James Atlas ISBN: 0375756760 Publisher: Princeton Review Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Gods and Heroes of the Greeks: The Library of Apollodorus by Michael Simpson, Leonard Baskin, Apollodorus ISBN: 0870232061 Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: September, 1986 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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