Volume 48, Number 12 · July 19, 2001
Was Jason a Hero?
By Hayden N. Pelliccia
The Argonautika
by Apollonios Rhodios, translated from the Greek with an introduction, commentary, and glossary by Peter Green
University of California Press, 474 pp., $60.00; $17.95 (paper)
Everybody has heard of the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece, and yet its poet is obscure. If Apollonius, the third-century BCE Alexandrian author of the Argonautika, could boast one reader today for every thousand who have read the Iliad or the Odyssey, he would have to count himself lucky. One of the aims of Professor Peter Green's new translation is to adjust this imbalance.
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