Fawkes (Francis) The Argonautics of Apollonius Rhodius in Four Books. The whole Revised, Corrected, and Completed, by his Coadjutor and Editor; who has annexed a translation of Coluthus's Greek Poem on the Rape of Helen, or the Origin of the Trojan War, London: for J. Dodsley, 1780, 8vo, full calf, marbled endpapers, bookplate for Lord Sandys, engraved frontispiece by Grignion after Hamilton, half title preceding The Rape of Helen

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First complete edition in English of Apollonius's myth of the Argonauts, the only surviving Hellenistic epic. This translation, by the poet Francis Fawkes, was edited and published posthumously by the classical scholar Henry Meen. Included is Meen's translation of Colluthus's The Rape of Helen, a c.500 AD-prequel to the Iliad and notably one of the last Greek epic poems.