The Voyage of the Argo
Subtitle: The Argonautica of Gaius Valerius Flaccus
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 7, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780801861772
Subjects: Works by individual poets: classical, early & medieval; Translations into English; Latin Literature; Latin; Poetry; Ancient - General; Ancient and Classical; Continental European; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical; Epic poetry, Latin; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Argonauts (Greek mythology); Jason (Greek mythology)
First sentence: Those straits the mighty sons of the gods first sailed, we sing, and their sacred ship that dared the banks of Scythia's Phasis, braving Symplegades' rocks that clashed together, and sank and settled to rest at last in the depths of the starry sky.