Alexandra Madeła is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warsaw. She gained her PhD in Classics from Trinity College Dublin. She has previously published on the Argonautica by Orpheus, Dares Phrygius, late antique poetry, and ancient scholarship.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Orpheus the Poet1 The Many Faces of Orpheus2 Orpheus of Kroton—a Red Herring3 The Argonautika as Part of Orpheus’ Oeuvre4 Double Vision5 Ps-Orpheus as Imitator and Inspiration for Homer and Apollonios6 Ps-Orpheus and Homer7 Ps-Orpheus and ApolloniosEdition and Translation: The Argonautika by OrpheusPart1 Formulaic Language: Between Tradition and Innovation1 Personal Epithets: Epic Jason, Tragic Medea1 Epic Hero Jason2 Medea3 Conclusions2 Epithets for ‘Ship’: The ‘Swift’ and the ‘Sluggish’ Argo1 Homeric-Archaic Epithets2 Epithets Inspired by Archaic Poetry3 Apollonian Epithets4 Other Epithets5 Conclusions3 Introductions to Direct Speeches: An Old and a New Formulaic Language1 Homeric-Archaic Speech Introductions2 Other Speech Introductions3 ConclusionsPart2 Rewriting the Epic Tradition: Homer and Apollonios4 Competing with Homer1 Metapoetics2 The Iliad as a Sequel3 Orpheus the Eyewitness and Homer the Liar4 Conclusions5 Rewriting Apollonios1 Introduction of Kyzikos2 Hospitality3 The Mountain Monsters4 Night-Time Battle and Death of Kyzikos5 Tiphys’ Dream6 Rhea’s Wrath7 The Funeral Games8 Kleite and Rhea9 ConclusionsFinal ThoughtsBibliographyIndex