Alastair is a postdoctoral research fellow at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland).

http://tcd.academia.edu/AlastairDaly

• Trinity College Dublin

I am currently working on a monograph which offers a new reading of Apollonius’ Argonautica by attending to the influence of comic literature and to the use of humour, aspects not normally considered in studies of epic poetry. While many students of the Argonautica have commented in passing on Apollonius’ wit, my research goes against the grain by making humour an integral part of the poem’s aesthetic and by placing comedy on an equal footing with the other genres (e.g. tragedy and lyric) which are appropriated in Apollonius’ generically polyphonic epic.

Apollonius of Rhodes, Herodas, humour, intertextuality, comedy and iambos