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Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography (Paperback)
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Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography (Paperback)
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This book examines the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes through
one aspect of its relationship with other texts. The particular
intertextual relationship examined is that with the Histories of
Herodotus, focusing on the presence of the latter text in the
former in terms of the poem's employment of characteristics and
features of historiographical discourse, narrative structures,
presentation and description of characters, aetiology and patterns
of explanation, portrayal of ethnic groups, depiction of kingship
and tyranny; the relationship between particular passages in both
texts is also explored. The consequences for the interpretation of
the poem are profound: the Argonautica employs Herodotean
historiography as a key intertext in order to manipulate and
frustrate the reader's generic expectations for an epic poem and to
complicate the relationship between the contemporary Hellenistic
Mediterranean (and its kingdoms) and the distant mythological
Argonautic past.
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