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306:), but the terminology is anachronistic. Moreover, in ancient biographies "pupil" and "student" are figures of speech designating the influence one poet may have exercised over another. Their poetic works do in fact indicate a close relationship, if only as authors, with similarities in theme and composition, style and phrasing, but it is not easy to work out who was responding to whom, especially since 'publication' was a gradual process in those days, with shared readings of drafts and circulation of private copies: "In these circumstances interrelationships between writers who habitually cross-refer and allude to one another are likely to be complex." 1766: 1785: 162:, another Alexandrian librarian/poet, is a topic much discussed by modern scholars since it is thought to give some insight into their poetry, although there is very little evidence that there ever was such a dispute between the two men. In fact almost nothing at all is known about Apollonius and even his connection with Rhodes is a matter for speculation. Once considered a mere imitator of 510:
between the two figures. Such a feud is consistent with what we know of Callimachus's taste for scholarly controversy and it might even explain why Apollonius departed for Rhodes. Thus there arises "a romantic vision of scholarly warfare in which Apollonius was finally driven out of Alexandria by a
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is known to have been deliberately obscure and some modern scholars believe the target was never meant to be identified. There is still not a consensus about the feud, but most scholars of Hellenistic literature now believe it has been enormously sensationalised, if it happened at all.
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Opinions on the poem have changed over time. Some critics in antiquity considered it mediocre. Recent criticism has seen a renaissance of interest in the poem and an awareness of its qualities: numerous scholarly studies are published regularly, its influence on later poets like
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in such fine style at Rhodes that he was able to return to Alexandria in triumph, where he was rewarded with a post in the library and finally a place in the cemetery next to Callimachus. These stories were probably invented to account for the existence of a second edition of
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instead of murdering him herself. The gods are relatively distant and inactive throughout much of the epic, following the Hellenistic trend to allegorise and rationalise religion. Heterosexual loves such as Jason's are more emphasized than homosexual loves such as that of
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The most reliable information we have about ancient poets is largely drawn from their own works. Unfortunately, Apollonius of Rhodes reveals nothing about himself. Most of the biographical material comes from four sources: two are texts entitled
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and the punishment of a fisherman, Pompilus, who tried to protect her and was turned into a fish of the same name. According to the commentary, the Pompilus fish was a topic of great interest to poets and scholars, including Callimachus and
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Ancient biographies often represent famous poets as going into exile to escape their ungrateful fellow citizens. Thus for example Homer was said to have left Cyme because the government there would not support him at public expense
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give information about Apollonius' death, and they disagree. The first reports that he died in Rhodes; the second reports that he died after returning to Alexandria and adds that "some say" he was buried with
384:) who taught rhetoric there. In fact the epithet "of Rhodes" need not indicate any physical association with the island. It might simply reflect the fact that he once wrote a poem about Rhodes. According to 814:. The author's name was not given but modern scholars attribute the verses to Apollonius since it has some clear affinities with the Jason/Medea story. It deals with the Lesbian princess, 556:
themes in poetry. It has even been called "a kind of poetic dictionary of Homer", without at all detracting from its merits as poetry. He has been credited with scholarly prose works on
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says that Apollonius succeeded Eratosthenes, but this does not fit the evidence either. There was another Alexandrian librarian named Apollonius ("The Eidographer", succeeding
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attest to his move there from Alexandria. They differ about whether he died in Rhodes or came back to Alexandria to take up the position of head of the Library. According to
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Apollonius was among the foremost Homeric scholars in the Alexandrian period. He wrote the period's first scholarly monograph on Homer, critical of the editions of the
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Apollonius's poetic skills and technique have only recently come to be appreciated, with critical recognition of his successful fusing of poetry and scholarship.
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Apollonius' epic also differs from the more traditional epic in its weaker, more human protagonist Jason and in its many digressions into local custom,
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a model for their own epics. His other poems, which survive only in small fragments, concerned the beginnings or foundations of cities, such as
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A and B tell us that Apollonius moved to Rhodes because his work was not well received in Alexandria. According to B, he redrafted the
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or "lampoon", suggesting a comic source (ancient biographers often accepted or misconstrued the testimony of comic poets). The second
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is now well recognised, and any account of the history of epic poetry now routinely includes substantial attention to Apollonius.
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seems to have been written partly as an experimental means of communicating his own researches into Homer's poetry and to address
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Until recently modern scholarship has made much of a feud between Callimachus and Apollonius. The evidence partly rests on an
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are the only testament to this poem but they seem to give conflicting accounts. According to one, it deals with the story of
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differs in some respects from traditional or Homeric Greek epic, though Apollonius certainly used Homer as a model. The
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For different views of the feud see for example M. Lefkowitz 2011 "Myth and History in the Biography of Apollonius" in
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means "Rhodian woman", and is almost certainly derived from an attempt to explain Apollonius' epithet "Rhodian". The
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Lefkowitz, Mary R. (2011), "Myth and History in the Biography of Apollonius", in T. Papaghelis; A. Rengakos (eds.),
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Kauffman, Nicholas. 2016. "Monstrous Beauty: The Transformation of Some Death Similes in Apollonius' Argonautica."
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Heerink, Mark A. J. 2012. "Apollonius and Callimachus on Heracles and Theiodamas: a Metapoetical Interpretation."
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Rengakos, Antonios (2011), "Apollonius Rhodius as a Homeric Scholar", in T. Papaghelis; A. Rengakos (eds.),
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refers to it in a discussion on snake bites. It isn't known if the poem was about Canobus (sometimes called
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is one of the few extant examples of the epic genre and it was both innovative and influential, providing
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Clare, Ray J. 1996. "Catullus 64 and the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius: Allusion and Exemplarity."
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was, in that sense, a didactic epic on geography, again without detracting from its merits as poetry.
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Papanghelis T.D.; Rengakos A. (2011), "Editors' Introduction", in T. Papaghelis; A. Rengakos (eds.),
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explaining the Rhodian practice of sacrificing without fire – they hated the fire-god
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Endso, Dag Ostein. 1997. "Placing the Unplaceable: The Making of Apollonius' Argonautic Geography."
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The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apollonius’ Argonautica.
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Edited by M. Annette Harder, Remco F. Regtuit and Gerry C. Wakker, 69–84. Louvain, Belgium: Peeters
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Meyer, Doris (2011), "Apollonius as Hellenistic Geographer", in T. Papaghelis; A. Rengakos (eds.),
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runs to more than 16,000. Apollonius may have been influenced here by Callimachus's brevity, or by
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verses were quoted by Stephanus Byzantius from a poem of this title, and a scholium to Nicander's
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The Path of the Argo: Language, Imagery, and Narrative in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius.
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is shorter than Homer's epics, with four books totalling fewer than 6000 lines, while the
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indicates that Apollonius had some kind of association with the island of that name. The
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with a "cultural mnemonic" or national "archive of images", and offering the Latin poets
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Krevans, Nita. 2000. "On the Margins of Epic: The Foundation-Poems of Apollonius." In
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Ancient Epic Poetry: Homer, Apollonius, Virgil, With a Chapter on the Gilgamesh Poems.
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places of interest to the Ptolemies, whom he served as a scholar and librarian at the
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Beginning from Apollo: Studies in Apollonius Rhodius and the Argonautic Tradition.
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Stephens, Susan (2011), "Ptolemaic Epic", in T. Papaghelis; A. Rengakos (eds.),
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left Athens for Sicily because Athenians valued him less than some other poets (
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Bulloch, A.W. (1985), "Hellenistic Poetry", in P. Easterling; B. Knox (eds.),
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Noegel, Scott. 2004. "Apollonius' Argonautika and Egyptian Solar Mythology."
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A coin showing Ptolemy III Euergetes, who may have been a pupil of Apollonius
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name Apollonius' father as Silleus or Illeus, but both names are very rare (
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Edited by Richard Hunter, 1–12. Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ. Press.
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The Renewal of Epic: Responses to Homer in the Argonautica of Apollonius.
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Epic and Romance in the Argonautica of Apollonius: Literary Structures.
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A handful of fragments are all that survive of his other work, mostly
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A and B); a third is an entry in the 10th-century encyclopaedia the
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even saying they were buried together; moreover Callimachus's poem
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of Apollonius stress the friendship between the poets, the second
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Callimachus, that discard, that plaything, that mahogany noggin,
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as library head) and this may have caused some of the confusion.
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The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Greek Literature
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Stephanus's entry is quoted from the translation in W. Race,
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Papanghelis, Theodore D., and Antonios Rengakos, eds. 2008.
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agree that Apollonius was a student of the poet and scholar
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The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
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Vergil’s Aeneid and the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius.
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fled to Macedonia because of humiliation by comic poets (
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states that Callimachus was his instructor in rhetoric (
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Harder, M. Annette, and Martine Cuypers, eds. 2005.
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Poet and Audience in the Argonautica of Apollonius.
242:names his mother as "Rhode", but this is unlikely; 202:1241, which provides names of several heads of the 1514:Sistakou, Evina (2011), "In Search of Apollonius' 1567:Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 2287: 1793:, with exhaustive bibliographies on Apollonius: 1651:The Politics of Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica. 1623:The Argonautica of Apollonius: Literary Studies. 1146:Myth and History in the Biography of Apollonius 1120:Myth and History in the Biography of Apollonius 1094:Myth and History in the Biography of Apollonius 1055:Myth and History in the Biography of Apollonius 1012:Myth and History in the Biography of Apollonius 999:Myth and History in the Biography of Apollonius 1744:Works by Apollonius at Perseus Digital Library 1518:Poems", in T. Papaghelis; A. Rengakos (eds.), 511:triumphant Callimachus". 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Index

Apollonius Rhodius
Alexandria
Naucratis
Rhodes
Alexandria
Ancient Greek
Latin
ancient Greek author
Argonautica
Jason
Argonauts
Golden Fleece
poem
Ptolemaic Egypt
Virgil
Gaius Valerius Flaccus
Alexandria
Cnidus
Library of Alexandria
Callimachus
Homer
scholia
Suda
P.Oxy.
Library of Alexandria
Suda
hapax legomenon
Strabo
Alexandria
Athenaeus

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