Apollonius of Rhodes
3rd century BC Greek epic poet
Apollonius of Rhodes was a Greek poet. He wrote Argonautica. This is an epic poem. It is about Jason, the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece. His other poems survive only in small pieces. These poems are about the beginnings of cities. Apollonius was a librarian at the Library of Alexandria. He lived and died in the first half of third century BC.
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- Works by Apollonius of Rhodes at Project Gutenberg
- A Hellenistic Bibliography, with exhaustive bibliographies on Apollonius: 1496–2005 Archived 2007-08-28 at the Wayback Machine, 1496–2005 excluding reviews Archived 2007-07-30 at the Wayback Machine, 2001–2005 Archived 2007-07-30 at the Wayback Machine, editions etc. Archived 2007-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
- Life of Apollonius, from the scholia at attalus.org
- P.Oxy. 1241 at attalus.org
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