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Apollonius Rhodius : Argonautica

(1) 'I have just started the "Argonautica" the Greek poem on the same subject,and though I haven't got very far — only in fact to the launching of the Argo — it is shaping very well. It will be interesting to compare this version with Morris's, although indeed the story of the Golden Fleece is so perfect in itself that it really can't be spoiled in the telling. Don't you find the very names "Argo" and "Argonauts" somehow stirring?' (2) 'I have come to the Hylas part in the Greek Argonautica. He doesn't go into it nearly as fully as Morris, but in some ways it is better.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis      Print: Book

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