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Argonautica

Argonautica

Left unfinished partway through its eighth book, Valerius Flaccus's Latin retelling of the Argonauts' voyage reworks the Greek epic tradition of Apollonius of Rhodes with a distinctly Flavian interest in empire, conquest, and the dangers of unchecked ambition.

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