Preliminary Material /Malcolm Campbell -- Commentary /Malcolm Campbell -- Prefatory Note /Malcolm Campbell -- Greek Words /Malcolm Campbell -- Greek Authors /Malcolm Campbell -- Latin Authors /Malcolm Campbell -- Composition, Language and Style, Metre and Prosody /Malcolm Campbell -- The Argonautica, Text, Testimonia, Scholia /Malcolm Campbell -- Mythology, Religion, Geography, Ethnography, Aetiology /Malcolm Campbell -- Supplements to Mnemosyne. This is a commentary on the third book of Apollonius' Argonautica , one of the most influential and admired products of the Hellenistic era. The author sets out to deal comprehensively with all important aspects of the work; in particular, proper attention is paid for the first time to the poet's constant manipulation of the two Homeric epics; many thorny problems of text and interpretation are examined afresh; and a wealth of hitherto unadduced illustrative material drawn from Greek and Roman poetry of various genres and periods is used to shed light on a number of issues. The volume closes with a series of detailed digestive indexes dealing with diction, models and imitations, language and style, metre, transmission, mythology, religion, geography, ethnography and aetiology
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