Apollonius' >Argonautica< and the Poetics of Controversy

Apollonius and the Poetics of Controversy is a literary study of Apollonius’ Argonautica against the backdrop of the contentious scholarly environment of the Alexandrian Library during its golden age. Jackie Murray analyzes the epic as a sophisticated participant in the intellectual and scientific debates of the era, arguing that Apollonius deliberately engages with his contemporaries in literary, philosophical, astronomical, historical, and mythological controversies to establish his own e...