** Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes

** Argonautica by Gaius Valerius Flaccus ( Roman poet, Greek mythology )

** Argonautica Orphica by Anonymous

Apollonius of Rhodes, in the Argonautica mentions that Medea was taught by Hecate, " I have mentioned to you before a certain young girl whom Hecate, daughter of Perses, has taught to work in drugs.

The goddess is described as wearing oak in fragments of Sophocles ' lost play The Root Diggers ( or The Root Cutters ), and an ancient commentary on Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica ( 3. 1214 ) describes her as having a head surrounded by serpents, twining through branches of oak.

Another Argonautica was written by Gaius Valerius Flaccus in the late 1st century AD, eight books in length.

Although the full story was described by Ovid, it was also mentioned by Philoxenus and Theocritus, and in Valerius Flaccus ' version of Argonautica, among the themes painted on the Argos, " Cyclops from the Sicilian shore calls Galatea back.

Apollonius Rhodius ' Argonautica, written in Hellenistic Egypt in the 3rd century BC, includes an origin and sovereignty myth of Thera being given by Triton in Libya to the Greek Argonaut Euphemus, son of Poseidon, in the form of a clod of dirt.

Medea figures in the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, a myth known best from a late literary version worked up by Apollonius of Rhodes in the 3rd century BC and called the Argonautica.

Apollonius of Rhodes depicts the island in Argonautica as a place visited by the Argonauts.

In Argonautica ( 4. 891 – 919 ), Jason had been warned by Chiron that Orpheus would be necessary in his journey.

In the Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes, the fusion of Rhea and Phrygian Cybele is complete.

* The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes, a Hellenistic, Greek epic poem.

Another, much less-known Argonautica, using the same body of myth, was composed in Latin by Valerius Flaccus during the time of Vespasian.

The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius appears to follow a different version of the same myth: in the poem, when the Argonauts arrive near Lake Tritonis, Euphemus accepts the clod of earth from Triton who first introduces himself as Eurypylus but later reveals his true divine identity.

In another scholium, it is said that the Argonautica's account of Ganymede's abduction by an amorous Zeus ( Argonautica 3. 114 – 17 ) was also modelled on a version by Ibycus ( in Homer's earlier account, Zeus abducted the youth to be his wine-pourer: Iliad 20. 234 ), and that Ibycus, moreover, described the abduction of Tithonus by Dawn ( Eos ).

The Argonautica Orphica calls her by a different name, Aregonis.

The best source for the myth is the Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius.

In Argonautica book II, part xiv, Jason sets the chthonic earthborn warriors fighting among themselves by hurling a boulder in their midst:

according to Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica the Argonauts landing soon after found only women in the island, ruled by Hypsipyle, daughter of the old king Thoas.

The rocks also appear on the journey in the Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes, who also locates them near Scylla and Charybdis, but beyond them rather than as an alternative route.

1175-1280 ( c. 250 BC ); Bibliotheca 1. 9. 19, 2. 7. 7 ( 140 BC ); Sextus Propertius, Elegies, i. 20. 17ff ( 50 – 15 BC ); Ovid, Ibis, 488 ( AD 8 – 18 ); Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, I. 110, III. 535, 560, IV. 1-57 ( 1st century ); Hyginus, Fables, 14.

Gildas Hamel, drawing on the Book of Jonah and Greco-Roman sources — including Greek vases and the accounts of Apollonius of Rhodes, Gaius Valerius Flaccus and Orphic Argonautica — identifies a number of shared motifs, including the names of the heroes, the presence of a dove, the idea of " fleeing " like the wind and causing a storm, the attitude of the sailors, the presence of a sea-monster or dragon threatening the hero or swallowing him, and the form and the word used for the " gourd " ( kikayon ).

Epic poems included the Argonautica of Gaius Valerius Flaccus, the Thebaid of Statius, and the Punica of Silius Italicus.

* The Roman epic poet Gaius Valerius Flaccus dies, having written works that include the Argonautica, describing the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from the mythical land of Colchis.

* Gaius Valerius Flaccus Argonautica ( epic )

Gaius Valerius Flaccus ( Setinus Balbus ) ( died c. AD 90 ) was a Roman poet who flourished in the " Silver Age " under the emperors Vespasian and Titus and wrote a Latin Argonautica that owes a great deal to Apollonius of Rhodes ' more famous epic.

Yet another different set of names is found in Valerius Flaccus ' Argonautica: he mentions Euryale, Harpe, Lyce, Menippe and Thoe.

According to the Latin Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus, he never found Hylas because he had fallen in love with the nymphs and remained " to share their power and their love.

* Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica II, 72-427

However, the Argonautica and Valerius Flaccus relate that Sinope was abducted to the site by Zeus, who, in his passion, swore to fulfil her dearest wish.

It is a quotation from Valerius Flaccus ' Argonautica, book I, verse 563.

His only surviving work, the Argonautica, dedicated to Vespasian on his setting out for Britain, was written during the siege, or shortly after the capture, of Jerusalem by Titus in 70 AD.

He translated the Alexandrian poet Apollonius Rhodius ' Argonautica into Latin.

Apollonius of Rhodes, or Apollonius Rhodius ( Latin ; Greek Apollṓnios Rhódios ), floruit first half of 3rd century BCE, is best known as the author of the Argonautica, an epic poem about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece.

In the 3rd century BC epic, the Argonautica, Apollonius Rhodius relates that Circe purified the Argonauts for the death of Absyrtus, maybe reflecting an early tradition.

Jason appeared in various literature in the classical world of Greece and Rome, including the epic poem Argonautica and tragedy, Medea.

Though some of the episodes of Jason's story draw on ancient material, the definitive telling, on which this account relies, is that of Apollonius of Rhodes in his epic poem Argonautica, written in Alexandria in the late 3rd century BC.

* Apollonius of Rhodes, Greek poet, grammarian and author of the Argonautica, an epic in four books on the voyage of the Argonauts ( b. c. 295 BC )

Due to Callimachus ' strong stance against the epic, he and his younger student Apollonius of Rhodes, who favored epic and wrote the Argonautica, had a long and bitter feud, trading barbed comments, insults, and ad hominem attacks for over thirty years.

The Argonautica is an epic poem probably intended to be in eight books ( though intended totals of ten and twelve books, the latter corresponding to Virgil's " Aeneid ", an important poetic model, have also been proposed ) written in traditional dactylic hexameters, which recounts Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece.

The Greeks and Romans had been literate societies, and much mythology was written down in the forms of epic poetry ( such as The Iliad, The Odyssey and the Argonautica ) and plays ( such as Euripides ' The Bacchae and Aristophones ' The Frogs ).

Apollonius of Rhodes, in his epic Argonautica, made it a port of call for the Argonauts travelling between Libya and Crete.

In his epic Argonautica, he locates the island somewhere south of Aethalia ( Elba ), within view of the Tyrrhenian shore ( western coast of Italy ).

He is best remembered for his epic the Argonautica, about Jason and his shipmates in search of the golden fleece.