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Article: The Argonautika.(Review)
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- New Criterion
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- March 1, 1998
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Apollonios Rhodios The Argonautika. Translated and with an introduction, commentary and glossary by Peter Green. University of California Press, 490 pages, $60
The story of Jason and the Argonauts has captured the imaginations of translators, adapters, movie producers, and pedants, but until now Greekless readers who wanted a faithful English version of the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius had to rely on R. C. Seaton's Loeb trot and the prose paperbacks of E. V. Rieu and Richard Hunter. Peter Green has changed all of that: his lively, careful, and sometimes very beautiful English verse rendering will be the standard English version of Apollonius for many years ...
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