Deborah Beck and Bill Farris kick off Season 3 with a conversation about how Book 1 sets the tone for the Argonautica, both what the story is about and how Apollonius tells the story.
Reading notes:
Beck, D. 2018. “Emotional and Thematic Meanings in a Repeating Homeric Motif: A Case Study,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 138: 150-72.
Clauss, J. 1993. The Best of the Argonauts. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Race, W. H., ed. 2008. Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.