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The Voyage of Argo
Apollonius of Rhodes
- Form
- Form Epic Poem
- Year
- Year 250 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Ancient Greek
- Pages
- Pages 250
Sunlight bouncing off water in a newly filled pail flickers and darts across a ceiling, and that quivering light, Apollonius says, is what a girl's heart does the moment she falls in love. He set that simile in the middle of an epic about a ship, and with it he did something Homer never attempted: he went inside a young woman at night, sleepless and ashamed, arguing herself in circles, reaching for the box of poisons and setting it down again.
Beginning with thee, O Phoebus, I will recount the famous deeds of men of old,
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