Inside Orpheus’ Songs: Orpheus as an Argonaut in Apollonius Rhodius’ <i>Argonautica</i>

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  • Andromache Karanika

Abstract

Orpheus' role as an Argonaut, at times ritual and prophetic, resembles that of an oikistes in colonization expeditions, and his songs can be read in the context of Ptolemaic civic foundations.

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2010-09-03

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