Apollonius of Rhodes
3rd century BC Greek epic poet
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Updated 2026-05-29
Ancient Greek poet best known for the Argonautica, an epic about Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece. Worked as a librarian in Ptolemaic Egypt and influenced later Latin poets, though almost nothing about his actual life is certain.
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Apollonius of Rhodes was an ancient Greek author, best known for the Argonautica, an epic poem about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. The poem is one of the few extant examples of the epic genre and it was both innovative and influential, providing Ptolemaic Egypt with a "cultural mnemonic" or national "archive of images", and offering the Latin poets Virgil and Gaius Valerius Flaccus a model for their own epics. His other poems, which survive only in small fragments, concerned the beginnings or foundations of cities, such as Alexandria and Cnidus, which were plac…
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