Bibliography
This is a select bibliography on Apollonius' Argonautica, divided by theme: space and geography, religion, and general studies on Apollonius.
A fuller bibliography about Apollonius can be found at: A Hellenistic Bibliography: Apollonius of Rhodes
Space & Geography
BRAUND, D. (1994). Georgia in Antiquity. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
CUSSET, C. (1998). Les paysages dans le chant II des Argonautiques d’Apollonios de Rhodes. In: C. Mauduit and P. Luccioni, eds., Paysages et milieux naturels dans la littérature antique. Actes de la table ronde organisée au Centre d’Études et de recherches sur l’occident romain de l’université Jean Moulin, Lyon 3 (25 septembre 1997). Paris: de Boccard, pp.97–112.
———. (2004). Les Argonautiques d’Apollonios de Rhodes comme itinéraire à travers la sauvagerie. In: M.C. Charpentier, ed., Les Espaces du sauvage dans le monde antique. Besançon: Actes du colloque, pp.31–52.
DELAGE, É. (1930). La Géographie Dans Les Argonautiques d’Apollonius De Rhodes. Bordeaux: Feret.
GILHULY, K. and WORMAN, N. eds. (2014). Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
HARDER, A.M. (1994). Travel Descriptions in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius. In: Z.R.W.M. von Martel, ed., Travel Fact and Travel Fiction: Studies on Fiction, Literary Tradition, Scholarly Discovery and Observation in Travel Writing. Leiden: Brill, pp.16– 29.
HUNTER. R.L. (1996). The Divine and Human Map of the Argonautica. Syllecta Classica, 6(1), pp.13– 27. doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/syl.1996.0010.
ILYUSHECHKINA, E. (2012). Die sakrale Geographie: Zu einigen passagen des Apollonios Rhodios in der Bearbeitung des Dionysios Periegetes. In: A.M. Harder, R.F. Regtuit and G.C. Bakker, eds., Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry. Leuven: Peeters, pp.163–80.
KLOOSTER, J. (2013). Argo was Here. The Ideology of Geographical Space in the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes. In: J. Heirman and J. Klooster, eds., The Ideologies of Lived Space Ancient and Modern. Gent: Academia Press, pp.159–73.
MEYER, D. (2008). Apollonius as a Hellenistic Geographer. In: T. Papanghelis and A. Rengakos, eds., A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius. Leiden: Brill, pp.217–35.
PEARSON, L. (1938). Apollonius of Rhodes and the Old Geographers. The American Journal of Philology, 59(4), pp.443–59. doi:https://doi.org/10.2307/291181.
PETROVIC, I. (2024). The Representation of the Black Sea Region in Apollonius’ Argonautica. In: Symposium - Re-envisioning the Black Sea in Literature and Historiography.
ROLLER, D.W. (2006). Through the Pillars of Herakles. New York: Routledge.
———. (2015). Ancient Geography. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
ROMM, J.S. (1992). The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
THALMANN, W.G. (2011). Apollonius of Rhodes and the Spaces of Hellenism. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
WILLIAMS, M.F. (1991). Landscape in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius. Frankfurt am Main ; Bern: Lang.
WILLIAMSON, C.J. (2024). Sacred Landscapes, Connecting Routes: Religious Topographies in the Graeco-Roman World. Leuven: Peeters. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.14962411.
Religion
ALBIS, R.V. (1995). Jason’s Prayers to Apollo in ‘Aetia’ 1 and the ‘Argonautica’. Phoenix, 49(2), pp.104–9.
BELLONI, L. (1999). Un’icona di Apollo (Apoll. Rhod. Argon. 2.669-684). Prometheus, 25(3), pp.231–42.
BILLAULT, A. (2008). Orphée dans les Argonautiques d’Apollonios de Rhodes. In: D. Auger and J. Peigney, eds., Phileuripidès. Mélanges offerts à François Jouan. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris, pp.197–208.
BORGOGNO, A. (2002). Le Muse Di Apollonio Rodio. RPL, 25, pp.5–21.
BRAUND, D. (2018). Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea Region : Goddesses in the Bosporan Kingdom from the Archaic Period to the Byzantine Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
BREMMER, J.N. (2005). Anaphe, Aeschrology, and Apollo Aigletes. Apollonius Rhodius 4.1711- 1730. In: A. Harder and M. Cuypers, eds., Beginning from Apollo: Studies in Apollonius Rhodius and the Argonautic Tradition. Leuven: Peeters, pp.18–34.
BUSCH, S. (1993). Orpheus bei Apollonios Rhodios. Hermes, 121, pp.301–24.
CERRI, G. (2007). Apollonio Rodio e Le Muse Hypophetores: Tre Interpretazioni a Confronto. QUCC, 85, pp.159–65.
CLAUSS, J.J. (2016). Heldendämmerung Anticipated: the Gods in Apollonius’ Argonautica. In: J.J. Clauss, M. Cuypers and A. Kahane, eds., The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry. from the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity and beyond. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp.135–151.
FAULKNER, A. (2004). Apollonius Rhodius, Gods and prophets. The Human-Divine Relationship in the Argonautica. In: Titulus. Studies in Memory of Dr. Stanislaw Kalita. Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, pp.49–66.
FEENEY, D.C. (1991). The Gods in Epic : Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
GARRIGA, C. (1996). The Muses in Apollonius of Rhodes: The Term Ὑποφήτορες. Prometheus, 22, pp.105–14.
GAUNT, D.M. (1972). Argo and the Gods in Apollonius Rhodius. G&R, 19(2), pp.117–26. doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/s001738350001977x.
GONZALEZ, J.M. (2000). Musai Hypophetores: Apollonius of Rhodes on Inspiration and Interpretation. HSCP, 100, pp.168–92.
HITCH, S. (2012). Hero Cult in Apollonius Rhodius. In: M.A. Harder, R.F. Regtuit and G.C. Wakker, eds., Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry. Leuven: Peeters, pp.131–62.
HUNTER, R.L. (1986). Apollo and the Argonauts. Museum Helveticum, 48, pp.50–60.
JÚNIOR, F. (2021). Μοῦσαι ὑποφήτορες: a relação entre o narrador e as Musas nos três prólogos das Argonáuticas de Apolônio de Rodes. Revista Conexão Letras, 15(24), pp.107–19. doi:https://doi.org/10.22456/2594-8962.110647.
KARANIKA, A. (2010). Inside Orpheus’ Songs: Orpheus as an Argonaut in Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 50, pp.391–410.
KYRIAKOU, P. (2018). Narrator and Poetic Divinities in Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica. Trends in Classics, 10, pp.367–91.
LYE, S. (2012). Rewriting the Gods: Religious Ritual, Human Resourcefulness, and Divine Interaction in the Argonautica. In: M.A. Harder, R.F. Regtuit and G.C. Wakker, eds., Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry (Hellenistica Groningana 16). Leuven: Peeters, pp.223–47.
MCPHEE, B. (2020). Blessed Heroes: Apollonius’ Argonautica and the Homeric Hymns. Dissertation.
NELIS, D.P. (1991). Iphias: Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.311–16. The Classical Quarterly, [online] 41(1), pp.96–105. doi:https://doi.org/10.2307/639027.
———. (1992). Demodocus and the Song of Orpheus (Ap. Rhod. Arg. I, 496-511). MH, 49, pp.153–70.
NOEGEL, S. (2004). Apollonius’ ‘Argonautika’ and Egyptian Solar Mythology. The Classical World, 97(2), p.123. doi:https://doi.org/10.2307/4352843.
PADUANO-FAEDO, L. (1970). L’inversione del rapporto Poeta-Musa nella cultura ellenistica. ASNP, 39, pp.377–86.
PETROVIC, I. [forthcoming]. Why Did Apollonius bring the Golden Fleece to Greece?
SANTAMARÍA, M.A. (2014). The Song of Orpheus in the Argonautica and the Theogonic Library of Apollonius. In: L.A. Guichard, J.L. García Alonso and M. Paz de Hoz, eds., The Alexandrian tradition: interactions between science, religion, and literature. Bern: Peter Lang, pp.115–140.
SCHAAF, I. (2014). Magie und Ritual bei Apollonios Rhodios. Berlin ; Boston: de Gruyter .
SMYKA, O.V. (1980). Les épithètes de Zeus dans les Argonautiques d’Apollonios de Rhodes. In: A.A. Takho-Gorli and I.M. Nakhov, eds., L’image et le mot. Moskva: Moskva Univ., pp.58–68.
STÖPPELKAMP , K. (2012). Göttliches Wirken und menschliche Freiheit bei Homer und Apollonios Rhodios. In: M.A. Harder, R.F. Regtuit and G.C. Bakker, eds., Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry. Leuven: Peeters, pp.335–72.
ZYBERT, E. (2008). Two Marginal Goddesses. In: M.A. Harder, R.F. Regtuit and G.C. Wakker, eds., Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry (Hellenistica Groningana 16). Leuven ; Paris ; Walpole, MA: Peeters, pp.373–92.
General Studies
ALBIS, R.V. (1996). Poet and Audience in the Argonautica of Apollonius. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
ARDIZZONI, A. (1967). Le Argonautiche, Libro 1. Rome: Edizioni dell’Ateneo.
BEYE, C.R. (1969). Jason as Love-Hero in Apollonios’ Argonautika. GRBS, 10, pp.31–55.
———. (1982). Epic and Romance in the Argonautica of Apollonius. Carbondale & Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press.
BUNDY, E.L. (1972). The ‘Quarrel between Kallimachos and Apollonios’ Part I: The Epilogue of Kallimachos’s ‘Hymn to Apollo’. CSCA, 5, pp.39–94. doi:https://doi.org/10.2307/25010632.
CAMPBELL, M. (1983). Studies in the Third Book of Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica. Hildesheim: Olms.
———. (1994). A Commentary on Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica III, 1-471. Leiden: Brill.
CLAUSS, J.J. (1993). The Best of the Argonauts. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press.
———. (1997). Conquest of the Mephistophelian Nausicaa: Medea’s Role in Apollonius’ Redefinition of the Epic Hero. In: J.J. Clauss and S.I. Johnston, eds., Medea : Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, pp.149–77.
———. (2000). Cosmos without Imperium : The Argonautic Journey through Time. In: M.A. Harder, R.F. Regtuit and G.C. Wakker, eds., Apollonius Rhodius (Hellenistica Groningana 4). Leuven, pp.11–32.
DEFOREST, M.M. (1994). Apollonius’ Argonautica: a Callimachean epic. Leiden: Brill.
FANTUZZI, M. (1988). Ricerche su Apollonio Rodio. Roma: Edizioni dell’Ateneo.
———. (2008). Which Magic? Which Eros? Apollonius’ Argonautica and the Different Narrative Roles of Medea as a Sorceress in Love. In: T.D. Papanghelis and A. Rengakos, eds., Brill’s Companion to Apollonius Rhodius (2nd rev. ed.). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, pp.287–310.
FRÄNKEL, H. (1968). Noten zu den Argonautika des Apollonios. Munich: C.H. Beck.
FUSILLO, M. (1985). Il Tempo Delle Argonautiche. Roma: Edizioni dell’Ateneo.
GREEN, P. transl. (1997). The Argonautika. Berkeley: University of California Press.
HÄNDEL, P. (1954). Beobachtungen zur epischen Technik des Apollonios Rhodios. Munchen: C. H. Beck’sche.
HÖLBL, G. (2001). History of the Ptolemaic Empire. New York: Routledge.
HOPKINSON, N. (1988). A Hellenistic Anthology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
HUNTER, R.L.. (1989). Apollonius of Rhodes : Argonautica Book III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Cop.
———. (1993a). Apollonius of Rhodes, Jason and the Golden Fleece. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
———. (1993b). The ‘Argonautica’ of Apollonius : Literary Studies. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
———. (2008). On Coming After : Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception. Berlin: de Gruyter.
———. (2011). Festivals, Cults and the Construction of Consensus in Hellenistic Poetry. In: G. Urso, ed., Dicere laudes. Elogio, comunicazione, creazione del consenso. Atti del convegno internazionale, Cividale del Friuli, 23-25 settembre 2010. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, pp.101–18.
———. (2015). Apollonius of Rhodes : Argonautica Book IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
KAMPAKOGLOU, A. (2018). Gazing at Heroes in Apollonius’ Argonautica. In: A. Kampakoglou and A. Novokhatko, eds., Gaze, Vision, and Visuality in Ancient Greek Literature. Berlin ; Boston: de Gruyter.
KNIGHT, V. (1995). The Renewal of Epic : Responses to Homer in the Argonautica of Apollonius. Leiden ; New York: Brill.
LIVREA, E. (1973). Apollonii Rhodii Argonauticon Liber Quartus. Florence: La Nuova Italia.
———. (1987). L’episodio Libyco nel quarto libro delle ‘Argonautiche’ di Apollonio Rodio. Quaderni di Archaeologia della Libya, 12, pp.175–90.
LLOYD, A.B. (1976). Herodotus. Book II. Commentary 1-98. Leiden: Brill.
LOVATT, H.V. (2018). Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica 4 and the epic gaze: There and back again. In: A. Kampakoglou and A. Novokhatko, eds., Gaze, Vision, and Visuality in Ancient Greek Literature. Leiden: Brill, pp.88–112.
MATTEO, R. (2007). Apollonio Rodio. Argonautiche, Libro II. Introduzione e commento a cura di Rocchina Matteo. Lecce: Pensa Multimedia.
MOONEY, G.W. (1912). The Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius. London: Longmans, Green & Co.
MORI, A. (2008). The Politics of Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press.
MORRISON, A.D. (2020). Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press.
MURRAY, J. (2005). Polyphonic Argo. Dissertation.
———. (2014). Anchored in Time: the Date in Apollonius’ Argonautica. In: A. Harder, R.F. Regtuit and G.C. Wakker, eds., Hellenistic Poetry in Context (Hellenistica Groningana 20). Leuven: Peeters, pp.247–84.
———. (2018). Silencing Orpheus: The Fiction of Performance in Apollonius’ Argonautica. In: A. Harder, R.F. Regtuit and G.C. Wakker , eds., Drama and Performance in Hellenistic Poetry. Leuven: Peeters, pp.201–224.
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———. (2021). Jason and the Athletes. Housman Lecture. Department of Greek & Latin at UCL. pp.3–14.
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———. (1980). Apollonios de Rhodes Argonautiques chant III. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.
———. (1981). Apollonios de Rhodes Argonautiques chant IV. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.
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(2005). Odyssey and Argonautica. The Classical Quarterly, 55(1), pp.39–64. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/cq/bmi003.