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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