The other two classical versions are the so-called Orphic Argonautica, also in Greek and written seven or eight centuries later, and this Latin version, written between 70 and 90 AD during the reigns of Vespasian, Titus and Domitian.

The most famous classical treatment of the story is the Ἀργοναυτικά by Apollonius of Rhodes, written in the third century BC in Greek. Where in the score does it say that a clarion's blast must resound,Īnd why should the Erinys trouble the peace of this tranquil city? The story of Jason and the Argonauts is very well known even today, thanks mainly to the 1963 film with its famous Ray Harryhausen animations: In amity then to be raised against one another in battle? How could Jove have allowed these heroes' hands that had clasped You know the heartsĪnd minds of the gods and can fathom their strange behavior toward men. O Clio, my muse, speak now through me to disclose the sadĪnd all but unspeakable denouement. Why that hands once locked in friendship should meet in strife? Wherefore was theĬlarion heard, and wherefore did Erinys trouble the night?ġ999 translation by David R. Since to thee, O Muse, has been vouchsafed the power to know the hearts of the godsĪnd the ways by which things come to be. Mozley translation for the Loeb edition, 1934 (prose):ĭo thou, Clio, now unfold the causes that drove the heroes to affrays unspeakable Iuppiter? unde tubae nocturnaque movit Erinys? cur talia passusĪrma, quid hospitiis iunctas concurrere dextras Pande virum tibi enim superum data, virgo, facultas Tu mihi nunc causas infandaque proelia, Clio,

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