A reading of Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica : the poetics of uncertainty

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    • Byre, Calvin S.

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A reading of Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica : the poetics of uncertainty

Calvin S. Byre

(Studies in classics, v. 20)

Edwin Mellen, c2002

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Bibliography: p. 165-175

Includes index

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In this book Dr. Byre suggests that perhaps Apollonius was not a blunderer and that perhaps he was not trying to be Homer. Dr. Byre further suggests that much of what has been criticized in Argonautica-Jason's indecisiveness, the confused and conflicting aims of the gods-reflect thesame skillful psychology for which his portrait of Medea is praised: an awareness of the conflicts that are a continual part of all our behavior, and our uncertainty about the respective roles of fate and chance in our careers.

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