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The Argonautica, also known as Jason and the Golden Fleece or Jason and the Argonauts, is the only making it through epic poem from Hellenistic Greece. It is a masterpiece whose account was well known to the followers of that time period. Virgil and other later poets were greatly inspired because of it. Its author, Apollonius, was a well-known third century BC scholar surviving in Alexandria during the great era of Ptolomaic scholarship or grant, and his bold attempt at writing a Homeric epic about Jason and his search for the Golden Fleece confronted a challenging audience of proficient contemporaries, whose likes had moved away from long poems and toward brief, perfectly made poetry. In ways, The Argonautica can be styled the first relationship novel where the author employs techniques which explore his people' inner thoughts and feelings. Actually, recent scholarship has now located Apollonius in the pantheon among Greece's ideal poets. This production presents two different, masterful translations of The Argonautica, one in prose form and the other in verse form. First up is the prose translation by R. C. Seaton. It works six time and 39 minutes. It is immediately accompanied by a verse translation by Arthur S. Way which works eight time and 13 minutes.
