The Argonautika narrates the adventures of Jason and his comrades,
the Argonauts, when they sailed from Iolkos, in eastern Greece, on
the ship Argo to acquire the Gold Fleece from King Aietes of
Kolchis, at the far end of the Black Sea. Book 3 tells how they
achieved their aim with the aid of the king's daughter, Medea, who
fell in love with Jason, betrayed her father, and abandoned her
homeland. Finally it relates the Argonauts' far-flung wanderings on
their voyage home to Iolkos, during which Medea connived in the
murder of her brother and became Jason's wife. This translation
represents the rhythm of the original, a dactylic-hexameter meter
like that of the poet's Homeric models, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
This evocation of Homer's epics is important to the significance of
the story and to the way readers understand the characters and the
action of the poem. The rhythm also gives greater value to the pace
of the narrative, the descriptions of places and events, and the
extended Homeric similes. The music carries the reader pleasurably
forward along with the voyage that it describes, especially if the
epic is read aloud from time to time. The brief introduction should
help readers understand the issues raised in this poem of the third
century BCE, when its author Apollonios Rhodios was a scholar and
librarian at the great library in Alexandria. But the epic itself
provides all necessary contexts, and readers are encouraged to
encounter it directly, not being overly concerned with precise
mythical or geographical references. This is a work to be enjoyed,
not sweated over.
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