The Poetics of Narrative in the Argonautica
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20064576 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Hunter (0000-0002-5167-1758, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Pages | 115-146 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Brill's Companion to Apollonius Rhodius (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004217140_007 |
| OpenAlex | W905314495 |
| ISBN | 9789004217140 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
For antiquity, the Argonautica was an epic, just as the Homeric poems were. The opening verse of the Arganautica therefore announces not, as in Homer, the subject of the poem, but rather its genre. More specifically, Apollonius begins from Apollo as did Homer in the Iliad , thus aligning his poem with the most authoritative of all epic texts, the Iliad . In writing a relatively long narrative poem on a mythological subject, and one which clearly measures itself against the Homeric poems, Apollonius seems in some respects to have gone against the predominant poetic trends of his Alexandrian context. The Argonautica was, moreover, a fashionable poem with the Roman neoterics, who fashioned themselves as the heirs of that Alexandrian avant-garde, and there is no suggestion in the Roman Nachleben that the Argonautica was in any way out of step with the modern Callimachean style. Keywords: Apollonius Rhodius; Argonautica ; Callimachus; Homer; Iliad ; narrative poem
Apollo · Archaeology · Art · EPIC · Literature · Mythology · Narrative · Poetics · Poetry · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |