in literary history, denotes poems on the subject and expeditions of the Argonauts. We have the Argonautics of Orpheus in epic verse, published by H. Stephens; the Argonauticon of Valerius Flaccus, in eight books of Latin heroics, in imitation of Apollonius, with respect to which Burman observes that the imitator has often surpassed the original; the Argonautics of Apollonius Rhodius, an heroic poem, consisting of four books, opus, as Quintilian calls it, non contentumendum.