Ruth Scodel is D. R. Shackleton Bailey Collegiate Professor Emerita of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan and Senior Research Associate at UC Davis. With the University of Michigan Press, she has previously published Listening to Homer: Tradition, Narrative, and Audience and is editor of Theater and Society in the Classical World. Her other books include Epic Facework and An Introduction to Greek Tragedy. Her many articles, book chapters, and reviews concern Greek literature from Homer through the Hellenistic period.

• Editor’s Preface Introduction: Why the Argonautica? Part One: Predecessors and Contemporaries1. “With No Direction Home:” Medea and Jason 2. Apollonius and Tragedy 3. Apollonius Rhodius and Theocritus 4. Poets in Dialogue 5. Apollonius and Aratus Part II: Aspects of the Argonautica6 . Apollonius and Hellenistic Art 7. Narrating Argonautic Epic 8. Gods in Apollonius’ Argonautica 9. “Coming from the People:” Aspets of Jason’s Leadership 10. Deceit, Desire, and Lamanet: in the Women’s Quarters with Apollonius 11. Magic in Apollonius’ Argonautica 12. Ritual Action in Apollonius’ Argonautica 13. Ptolemaic Ideology in the Argonautica Part 3: Rome and Beyond14. Apollonius in Rome: Catullus’ Carmen 64 15. Apollonius and Virgil 16. Apollonius and Ovid 17. Lucan and Apollonius: Parameters of A Poetic Relationship 18. The Gods in Valerius Flaccus 19. Apollonius’ Argonautica in Statius’ Silvae 20. Translations Works CitedContributorsIndex of Authors and PassagesGeneral Index

Ruth Scodel is D. R. Shackleton Bailey Collegiate Professor Emerita of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan and Senior Research Associate at UC Davis. With the University of Michigan Press, she has previously published Listening to Homer: Tradition, Narrative, and Audience and is editor of Theater and Society in the Classical World. Her other books include Epic Facework and An Introduction to Greek Tragedy. Her many articles, book chapters, and reviews concern Greek literature from Homer through the Hellenistic period.

• Editor’s Preface Introduction: Why the Argonautica? Part One: Predecessors and Contemporaries1. “With No Direction Home:” Medea and Jason 2. Apollonius and Tragedy 3. Apollonius Rhodius and Theocritus 4. Poets in Dialogue 5. Apollonius and Aratus Part II: Aspects of the Argonautica6 . Apollonius and Hellenistic Art 7. Narrating Argonautic Epic 8. Gods in Apollonius’ Argonautica 9. “Coming from the People:” Aspets of Jason’s Leadership 10. Deceit, Desire, and Lamanet: in the Women’s Quarters with Apollonius 11. Magic in Apollonius’ Argonautica 12. Ritual Action in Apollonius’ Argonautica 13. Ptolemaic Ideology in the Argonautica Part 3: Rome and Beyond14. Apollonius in Rome: Catullus’ Carmen 64 15. Apollonius and Virgil 16. Apollonius and Ovid 17. Lucan and Apollonius: Parameters of A Poetic Relationship 18. The Gods in Valerius Flaccus 19. Apollonius’ Argonautica in Statius’ Silvae 20. Translations Works CitedContributorsIndex of Authors and PassagesGeneral Index

Ruth Scodel is D. R. Shackleton Bailey Collegiate Professor Emerita of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan and Senior Research Associate at UC Davis. With the University of Michigan Press, she has previously published Listening to Homer: Tradition, Narrative, and Audience and is editor of Theater and Society in the Classical World. Her other books include Epic Facework and An Introduction to Greek Tragedy. Her many articles, book chapters, and reviews concern Greek literature from Homer through the Hellenistic period.

• Editor’s Preface Introduction: Why the Argonautica? Part One: Predecessors and Contemporaries1. “With No Direction Home:” Medea and Jason 2. Apollonius and Tragedy 3. Apollonius Rhodius and Theocritus 4. Poets in Dialogue 5. Apollonius and Aratus Part II: Aspects of the Argonautica6 . Apollonius and Hellenistic Art 7. Narrating Argonautic Epic 8. Gods in Apollonius’ Argonautica 9. “Coming from the People:” Aspets of Jason’s Leadership 10. Deceit, Desire, and Lamanet: in the Women’s Quarters with Apollonius 11. Magic in Apollonius’ Argonautica 12. Ritual Action in Apollonius’ Argonautica 13. Ptolemaic Ideology in the Argonautica Part 3: Rome and Beyond14. Apollonius in Rome: Catullus’ Carmen 64 15. Apollonius and Virgil 16. Apollonius and Ovid 17. Lucan and Apollonius: Parameters of A Poetic Relationship 18. The Gods in Valerius Flaccus 19. Apollonius’ Argonautica in Statius’ Silvae 20. Translations Works CitedContributorsIndex of Authors and PassagesGeneral Index