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Contents INTRODUCTION THE ARGONAUTICA BOOK I BOOK II BOOK III BOOK IV ENDNOTES INTRODUCTION Much has been written about the chronology of Alexandrian literature and the famous Library, founded by Ptolemy Soter, but the dates of the chief writers are still matters of conjecture.

From these we learn that he was of Alexandria by birth,[1] that he lived in the time of the Ptolemies, and was a pupil of Callimachus; that while still a youth he composed and recited in public his _Argonautica_, and that the poem was condemned, in consequence of which he retired to Rhodes; that there he revised his poem, recited it with great applause, and hence called himself a Rhodian.

The _Argonautica_ was translated by Varro Atacinus, copied by Ovid and Virgil, and minutely studied by Valerius Flaccus in his poem of the same name.

Some of his finest passages have been appropriated and improved upon by Virgil by the divine right of superior genius.[4] The subject of love had been treated in the romantic spirit before the time of Apollonius in writings that have perished, for instance, in those of Antimachus of Colophon, but the _Argonautica_ is perhaps the first poem still extant in which the expression of this spirit is developed with elaboration.

THE ARGONAUTICA BOOK I Beginning with thee, O Phoebus, I will recount the famous deeds of men of old, who, at the behest of King Pelias, down through the mouth of Pontus and between the Cyanean rocks, sped well-benched Argo in quest of the golden fleece.