ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ ΡΟΔΙΟΥ: ΑΡΓΟΝΑΥΤΙΚΑ APOLLONII RHODII: ARGONAUTICORUM LIBRI QUATOR.OXONII (OXFORD ) Clarendon Press 1779 Oxford 18th century edition of one of the famous Ancient Greek myth.In Quatro,full contemporary leather with very light wear,text in the original Greek with Latin translation at the bottom of each page,text clean and bright,overall in a very good plus condition. An Oxford edition of the Argonautica published in 1779, a scarce edition of the Greek epic poem by Apollonius of Rhodes. It is primarily known as the Shaw Edition, edited by Thomas Shaw. Books from the Clarendon Press in the late 18th century are prized for their heavy, high-quality paper and classic typography. It represents a specific moment in British classical education, showing how Greek texts were taught and edited at Oxford before the major reforms of the 19th century. At the time, the Argonautica,the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece,had not been printed in England for many years. Shaw's edition was intended to be the definitive Oxford version for teaching Greek at Oxford.