Talk:Argonautica

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was PAGE MOVED a couple of days ago by User:Aldux. -GTBacchus^(talk) 02:01, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Requested move

Argonautika → Argonautica — this work's most common name in English is Argonautica. See for instance [1], [2], [3]. WP:GREEK also suggests that the title should be Argonautica. A redirect page is obstructing the move. --Akhilleus (talk) 21:15, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Survey

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• Support - I couldn't agree more; Argonautica is more common, and the guideline for Greek names points clearly in that direction.--Aldux 21:32, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
• Support - See discussion below. --Wirbelwind 22:01, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

• Support - as per above --Odysses (☜) 07:45, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

• Support per above, but somebody needs to do something about the page history apparently screwed up by cut and paste move on 21 May 2006. What we have now starts with a page request move added to existing materials, as the first entry in the history, and the rest of the history is on the history of the Argonautica redirect page. Gene Nygaard 02:08, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
• Support Obvious; can we move the Kypria to its English name too, please? Septentrionalis 16:09, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Discussion

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Regards what Jene said, it's not really the case; the present article was started at Argonautika, while Argonautica was just a redirect to Jason, after a previous stub had been merged with the former. Since we all appear to agree, I'me ready to move the article personally right now; as an admin, I can overcome the redirect obstruction. Any objections.--Aldux 20:23, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

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Google test results

28,100 pages for "Argonautika"
192,000 pages for "Argonautica"

Results from Google. Wirbelwind 22:00, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Argonautica Orphica

I was surprised to see that this article completely ignores the existence of the second work under the title Argonautica, by Orpheus. The surviving copy was written at aprox. 1st century AD.

In the Greek Mythology Link by Carlos Parada, Argonautica Orphica is described as "Another major account on the expedition of the Argonauts" [4]. Also in this page[5]

Not to mention "Argonautica by Valerius Flaccus".

Does anyone know more about this? --Odysses (☜) 08:04, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes it's a boring and surviving Latin poem written (I think) in the 1st century AD. But I believe the Argonautica Orphica is generally thought to be much later, possibly IV century AD, for its neoplatonic elements.--Aldux 17:04, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. The surviving version of Argonautica Orphica is actualy of the IV or V century AD. It includes some 1375 verses and it describes a different return route than Argonautika by Apollonios Rhodios. From a brief search over the Internet I saw that it is considered as a rare book. Perhaps a brief mention should be made on this article. --Odysses (☜) 18:24, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Personally, I believe it would be better to right a new article, that could be titled Argonautica Orphica. This article should remain an article on Apollonius' epic, not on the myth in general.--Aldux 20:00, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, a collective discussion should be at Argonauts; perhaps Jason, but that should be pargely merged here.Septentrionalis 20:15, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

The epic by Valerius Flaccus should probably have its own page; I haven't read it, but I think most people would agree with Aldux that it's boring. Nevertheless, books and articles have been written about it.

As far as the Orphic Argonautica, I wonder if it should have its own article, or if there should just be an article Orphic poetry vel sim., because there's quite a bit of miscellaneous stuff attributed to Orpheus.

Should there also be a Argonautica (diambiguation), to direct readers to all these pages? --Akhilleus (talk) 20:19, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and created the disambig page, so if the other articles get created, please update Argonautica (disambiguation). --Akhilleus (talk) 20:42, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

I filed a requested move for Kypria on [[[WP:RM]]. Septentrionalis 16:28, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

misinformation about translations

All the English translations were grouped under 'verse.' One that I got is prose, so I moved it to 'prose,' but several of the others may be prose also. Green's translation is the only newer verse one I have heard of by someone that has actually read it.--Dchmelik (talk) 04:47, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

I have Green's here, and Hunter's. Both prose. Green has splendid notes that make the reading experience much richer.--Wetman (talk) 04:52, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

That is interesting, but I would not call any prose translation of poetry 'richer reading.' Poetry may be almost humourous or introspective to read, but I think it also causes only necessary (but deeper) introspection compared to prose and is more to the point. I hope we can get the 'translations' section cleaned up. It needs to show at least one academic standard translation into English verse--if it exists--because usually it can be translated into verse that mostly rhymes and it makes the book much easier to look through to find parts in. That is why epics number the verses: one can find specific statements/lines quite easily. Right now I do not trust the translations' categorization except for the one I looked up and probably the one you mentioned--since you have at least a couple--though the review I read did recommend Green's as verse: I must just check out as many as I can.--Dchmelik (talk) 21:08, 15 April 2009 (UTC)