The Path of the Argo: Language, Imagery and Narrative in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Minimally rubbed, allover very good and clean. / Minimal berieben, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- I. There and back again -- 1. Epic beginnings -- 2. Outward bound -- 3. Other journeys -- 4. Homeward bound -- II. Order and disorder -- 5. Patterns of actions -- 6. Orpheus and Medea -- 7. Poetics and rhetoric. - In this innovative study of Apollonius Rhodius� influential epic poem from the Hellenistic period, the author aims both to offer fresh insights into popular critical issues and to consider the work from new perspectives. The principal, unifying concern is the poet�s measured and complex use of language and the manipulation of meaning generated therewith. The first part presents a detailed analysis of the poem�s constantly shifting commentary on the voyage of the Argo as articulated throughout all four books of the poem, and the conflicting strategies according to which the epic journey of the Argonauts is presented for interpretation. The second part of the book identifies hitherto unexplored descriptive, thematic and image-related rhythms within the narrative, which serve both to bind the poem together and to generate further complexities of meaning. The book is written to be accessible to non-specialists and passages of original Greek text are accompanied by an English translation. - R. J. Clare is currently Lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds. He was educated in Dublin and Cambridge and has held a research fellowship at the University of Manchester and a lectureship at the University of Durham. He is the author of articles on Homer, Apollonius Rhodius, Catullus and Virgil. ISBN 9780521810364