{Greek Literature [continued (13)] [– Epic]}[8th February 1991]

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‘The last surviving classical Greek epic was written by [Callimachus’]* successor at Alexandria, Apollonius of Rhodes (born about 295).** Apollonius’ account of the voyage of of the Argonauts is so full of local legend that the coherence of the poem is lost; but the story of Medea’s wild passion for Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, is marked by a new sort of romantic awareness*** that is fully realised in the episode of Dido’s passion for Aeneas in Virgil’s**** Aenead.’

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*[Square brackets in ms, indicating inserted material]

**2048R~256BCE

***R~

****70-19BCE

[Underlining per ms, presumably as in source]

#– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20:] 403

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