Clauss, James J.
The Best of the Argonauts

The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apollonius's 'Argonautica'.

Rescuing Jason from his status as the ineffectual hero of Apollonius's epic poem, this study redefines the epic hero and explains how Apollonius created, in Jason, a man more realistic and less awesome than his Homeric predecessors. XVIII,238 Seiten, gebunden (Hellenistic Culture and Society; Vol. 10/University of California Press 1993) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed