Untimely Epic: Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica

by Tom Phillips and Tom Phillips

Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica is a voyage across time as well as space. The Argonauts encounter monsters, nymphs, shepherds, and kings who represent earlier stages of the cosmos or human society; they are given glimpses into the future, and themselves effect changes in the world through which they travel. Readers undergo a still more complex form of temporal transport, enabled not just to imagine themselves into the deep past, but to examine the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198848560
• ISBN13: 9780198848561
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"