A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius

by Antonios Rengakos (Editor)

This volume on Appolonius of Rhodes, whose "Argonautica" is the sole full-length epic to survive from the Hellenistic period, comprises articles by 14 scholars from across Europe and America. Their contributions cover a wide range of issues from the history of the text and the problems of the poet's biography through questions of style, literary technique and intertextual relations to the epic's library and cultural reception. The aim is to give an outline of the scholarly discussion in these areas and provide a survey of trends in Apollonian studies.

Hardcover

First published April 26, 2001

About the author

Antonios Rengakos (Greek: Αντώνιος Ρεγκάκος) studied classics at the University of Freiburg (B.A. 1979, Ph.D. 1982). He has taught at the Universities of Vienna (1994-1995), Freiburg (1991-1997). In 1997 he was appointed Professor of Ancient Greek Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and in 2011 he became a full member of the Academy of Athens (Chair: Ancient Greek Philology).
His research interests include Homer, historiography and Hellenistic poetry.


He is also co-editor (with F. Montanari) of the series Τrends in Classics Supplementary Volumes and the journal Trends in Classics (Walter de Gruyter), and member of the scientific board of the journals Wiener Studien, Eikasmos. Since 2006 he is Director of the Linguistics Department of the Centre for the Greek Language in Thessaloniki.
He is a member of the Board of the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece (MIET) and of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture.