The standard Greek text of Apollonius’ Argonautica is the three-volume Bude edition, with commentary by Francis Vian and French translation by limile Delage (Paris: 1974-81); a second edition (2002) of all three volumes is now available. R. L. Hunter’s Apollonius of Rhodes. Argonautica. Book III (Cambridge: 1989), provides a concise and current overview of the poem and its background (pp. 143). For English commentary on the entire Greek text, see G. W. Mooney (ed.), The Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius (London: 1912). For English translation with commentary, see R. L. Hunter, Jason and the Golden Fleece: The Argonautica (Oxford: 1993). Extensive notes are also available in the cloth edition of P. Green’s translation, The Argonautika. Apollonios Rhodios (Berkeley and Los Angeles: 1997). T. D. Papan-ghelis and A. Rengakos (eds.), A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius (Leiden: 2001), deal with many aspects of the poem and its background. For a survey of recent scholarship on the poem, see R. F. Glei, ‘Outlines of Apollonian Scholarship 19551999’, in T. D. Papanghelis and A. Rengakos (eds.), A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius (cited above), pp. 1-26. For an incisive analysis of Hellenistic poetry, see M. Fantuzzi and R. L. Hunter, Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (Cambridge: 2004). The best monograph in English on the Argonautica is that of R. L. Hunter, The Argonautica of Apollonius. Literary Studies (Cambridge: 1993). On the use of rhetoric in the poem, see R. J. Clare, The Path of the Argo: Language, Imagery, and Narrative in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius (Cambridge: 2002), pp. 261-285. On allusions to Homeric epics, see V. Knight, The Renewal of Epic. Responses to Homer in the Argonautica of Apollonius (Leiden: 1995) and R. V. Albis, Poet and Audience in the Argonautica of Apollonius (Boulder, CO: 1996). On the diminished importance of messenger speeches in written epic, see J. Nishimura-Jensen, ‘The Poetics of Aethalides: Silence and Poikilia in Apollonius’ Argonautica CQ2 48 (1998), pp. 456-469.
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