This volume contains a wide range of articles and providing a survey of current developments in research on Apollonius. Several articles show how recent developments in modern literary criticism or linguistics can lead to new or more refined insights in our understanding of Apollonius’ poetry and how a renewed analysis of selected passages can contribute to our overall view of this poet. There are other articles that depict how Apollonius was heralded among his Greek contemporaries and the reception of his work in Latin literature. There is also a fascinating article that places the Argonautica in its contemporary Ptolemaic social context as legitimising Greek rule in Egypt. An exhaustive and thorough review of a poet whose work is widely studied.