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en-wikipedia-org-6894		Argonautica - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	13891	1049	72	The only surviving Hellenistic epic, the Argonautica tells the myth of the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from remote Colchis. In adapting the epic genre to this audience, Apollonius went a long way towards inventing the romance novel,[5] including narrative techniques like the "interior monologue", whereby the author identifies with a character's thoughts and feelings.[6] The re-evaluation of his work in recent times has led to a mass of innovative studies, often jostling each other for attention, so that Argonautica has become a daunting adventure for many modern scholars too: For many readers, the strangely unheroic quality of the poem is only redeemed by the romance between Jason and Medea in Book 3,[34] and even the history of scholarship on Apollonius has had its focus there.[35][36] Sensitive descriptions of heterosexual love first emerge in Western literature during the Hellenistic period[37] and Argonautica was innovative in making it an epic topic.[38]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6894.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6894.txt