The Argonautika
Expanded Edition
$24.95, £14.95 paperback
978-0-520-25393-3
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524 pages, 6 x 9 inches,
January 2008, Available worldwide
Categories: Classics; Classical Literature & Language; Ancient History
January 2008, Available worldwide
Categories: Classics; Classical Literature & Language; Ancient History
"Green has spent the best part of a decade producing his annotated translation. . . . He is never less than lucid and occasionally musical, too."—London Review of Books
"Lively, careful, and sometimes very beautiful. . . . The fleece is won."—The New Criterion
"Masterful, as one might have predicted from so accomplished a translator. . . . There is no doubt in my mind that this is the best of the Argonauticas."—Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"Lively, careful, and sometimes very beautiful. . . . The fleece is won."—The New Criterion
"Masterful, as one might have predicted from so accomplished a translator. . . . There is no doubt in my mind that this is the best of the Argonauticas."—Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"Green turns his formidable classical learning and his finely nuanced sense of English verse to bear on the challenge of restoring Apollonios to his true place—on a par with the best modern poetic versions of Homer and Virgil."—Robert Fagles
The Argonautika, the only surviving epic of the Hellenistic era, is a retelling of the tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece, probably the oldest extant Greek myth. Peter Green's lively, readable verse translation captures the swift narrative movement of Apollonios's epic Greek. This expanded paperback edition contains Green's lively and incisive commentary, introduction, and glossary.