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- Title
APOLLONIUS OF RHODES, HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY, AND FATE.
- Authors
OJENNUS, PAUL
- Abstract
Apollonius of Rhodes in his Argonautica engages contemporary philosophical debates on the nature of fate, such as whether fate implies necessity or is compatible with free choice, the relation of fate to moral praiseworthiness, and the relationship of divination and fate. This study advances on earlier attempts to relate Hellenistic philosophy to the Argonautica in that it focuses on the metaphysical issue of fate rather than ethics or epistemology, and in that it does not see Apollonius as committing to a philosophical school, but providing a poetic critique of philosophical claims of comprehensive knowledge, similar to Callimachus' reactions to Plato.
- Subjects
APOLLONIUS, Rhodius; FREEDOM of employment; PHILOSOPHICAL counseling
- Publication
American Journal of Philology, 2018, Vol 139, Issue 2, p215
- ISSN
0002-9475
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ajp.2018.0012