id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8739 Apollonius of Rhodes - Wikipedia .html text/html 4377 422 63 first half of 3rd century BCE) was an ancient Greek author, best known for the Argonautica, an epic poem about Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece. Ancient sources describe Callimachus's poem Ibis — which does not survive — as a polemic and some of them identified Apollonius as the target.[nb 1] These references conjure up images of a sensational literary feud between the two figures. It might then be inferred that this kind of treatment was typical of his other foundation poems as well[26] (the question of unity is one of the main issues even in Argonautica, which is sometimes termed an "episodic epic").[27] Five hexameter verses attributed to Apollonius may be a fragment of this poem but they seem unrelated to the stories of Lyrcus and Byblis and some scholars think they come from the next poem. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8739.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8739.txt