RT Journal Article
T1 The Return Journey of the Argonauts and Mythical Geography in Apollodorus's Library
A1 Acerbo, Stefano
AB The return voyage of the Argonauts described in the Library presents remarkable differences compared to the model provided by Apollonius of Rhodes. Here we focus specifically on two aspects of the trip in Apollodorus's version, with the aim of providing new insights on these elements of the story that deviate from Apollonius: the order of the stages in the Adriatic Sea and the absence of the Libyan episode. As a result, our analysis allows us to appreciate, beyond the canonical value acquired by Apollonius's text in the early imperial period, the important role played by other local myths, even glimpsing the influence of more ancient traditions about the journey of the Argonauts. Moreover, Apollodorus' authorial choices seem to reveal a general scepticism for the part of the mythographer regarding the possibility of adapting the landscape of the mythological traditions to the geographical knowledge of his time.
PB Johns Hopkins University Press : Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS)
SN 0009-8353
YR 2023
FD 2023-02
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/122189
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/122189
LA eng
NO Acerbo, Stefano. «The Return Journey of the Argonauts and Mythical Geography in Apollodorus’s Library». Classical Journal, vol. 118, n.o 3, 2023, pp. 268-95. Project MUSE, https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/882751.
NO This article has been written in the context of the projects “El Prisma Romano: Ideología, Cultura y Clasicismo en la Tradición Geo-historiográfica, II (PID2020-117119GB-C22)”; “Incognitae Terrae, Incognitae Gentes. El conocimiento geográfico e historiográfico antiguo: formación, evolución, transmisión y recepción (P20_00573)”; “Hacia las fronteras del mundo habitado. Conocimiento y transmisión de la literatura geográfica e historiográfica griega (US-1380757)”, all of them directed by professor Francisco J. González Ponce, University of Seville.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 jul 2025