copyright 1960; The Heritage Press, New York; larger hardbound in external slipcase; includes the original "The Heritage Clug Sandglass" flier and the "Member's Bill from the Heritage Club" ;wonderful condition with unmarked, clean pages; slipcase very good; a lovely book.
 
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The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only surviving Greek epic to bridge the gap between Homer and late antiquity, this epic poem is the crowning literary achievement of the Ptolemaic court at Alexandria, written by Appolonius of Rhodes in the third century BC. Appollonius explores many of the fundamental aspects of life in a highly original way: love, deceit, heroism, human ignorance of the divine, and the limits of science, and offers a gripping and sometimes disturbing tale in the process.