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grbs-2551	Endsjo, Dag Oistein	Placing the Unplaceable: The Making of Apollonius’ Argonautic Geography	1997	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5632	304	64	Apollonius also connects the motley ensemble fol­ lowing Circe-creatures consisting of limbs apparently so haphazardly assembled that these figures resemble neither beasts nor humans-with autochthonous forms of life that ap­ peared automatically from the first amorphous substance: 38 an idea he seems to have taken from Empedocles' theories on the creation.39 The Argonauts' heroic endeavour opens up distant lands for the common man, who lacks their heroic stature; and it actually creates the way through previously unknown territories. 373 Placing the Unplaceable: The Making of Apollonius' Argonautic Geography Dag 0istein EndsjrJ I N HIS EPIC MASTERPIECE, the Argonautica, Apollonius of Rhodes gives an apparently straightforward description of the wondrous route of the Argo.	cache/grbs-2551.pdf	txt/grbs-2551.txt