Introduction; Text; Commentary.
The Argonautica is the only surviving epic between Homer and Virgil; Book IV is an extraordinary product of Greek poetry.
Richard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively in the fields of Greek and Latin literature; his most recent books include The Shadow of Callimachus (2006), Critical Moments in Classical Literature Cambridge, 2009), Plutarch: How to Study Poetry (edited with Donald Russell, Cambridge, 2011), Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature: The Silent Stream (2012), and Hesiodic Voices (2014).
'With … Hunter's Argonautica IV, Anglophone scholars of Alexandrian literature have been superbly served at the highest level of scholarship …' Colin Leach, Classics for All
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