First in my song shalt thou be, O Phoebus, the song that I sing Of the heroes of old, who sped, at the hest of Pelias the king, When down through the gorge of the Pontus-sea, through the Crags Dark-bl...

There were there steadings of cattle, and Amykus’ farms were there, Proud king of Bebrykian men, whom erst a wood-nymph bare; For Bithynian Meliê couched with Poseidon the Lord of Birth. Overweening w...

Come, Erato, now, stand by me: of thy lips let me be taught In what manner thereafter Jason the Fleece to Iolkos brought Through the love of Medea: for thou in the things by the Cyprian ordained Hast ...

Now take thou up the story, O Goddess of Song, and sing The afflictions and thoughts of the Kolchian maid; for as touching this thing In a tempest of wilderment whirled is my soul, that I know not to ...

The historian, if asked to name the country and the period in which literary men⁠—not popular novelists, but men whose incentive to labour is the love of literature, science, research⁠—were in the mos...

To him is attributed the saying, “A great book is a great evil.” ↩ “The Bird of the Nile” in satirical allusion to Apollonius’ birthplace being beside that river. ↩...