War, Wisdom, and other gods: philological allegory in the Argonautica by Orpheus

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Madeła, Alexandra ORCID logo 0000-0002-1282-0327
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2019
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Trinity College Dublin
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This article aims to shed new light on the portrayal of divine beings in the anonymous Argonautica by Orpheus. It argues that at certain points in the narrative, the gods can be read as either forces of nature or emotions. It appears likely that these allegorical depictions are due to the influence of ancient scholarship on Homer, which frequently sought to explain the Iliadic and Odyssean gods in a similar manner.
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Argonautica by Orpheus  Orphic Argonautica  allegory  ancient scholarship  Heraclitus  Homeric Problems
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Alexandra Madeła, “War, Wisdom, and other gods: philological allegory in the Argonautica by Orpheus.”, Hermathena, 207, pp. 21-36.
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https://open.icm.edu.pl/handle/123456789/26008
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