Apollonius Rhodius
Related Category: Classical Literature: Biographies
(ăp´´əlō´nēəs rō´dēəs), fl. 3d cent. B.C., epic poet of Alexandria and Rhodes. He became librarian at Alexandria. His extant work, the
Argonautica, is a Homeric imitation in four books on the story of the Argonaut heroes.
