Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography

This book examines the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes through one aspect of its relationship with other texts. The particular intertextual relationship examined is that with the Histories of Herodotus, focusing on the presence of the latter text in the former in terms of the poem''s employment of characteristics and features of historiographical discourse, narrative structures, presentation a...