Valerius Flaccus (poet)

Gaius Valerius Flaccus (/ˈflækəs/; died c. AD 90) was a 1st-century Roman poet who flourished during the "Silver Age" under the Flavian dynasty,[1][2] and wrote a Latin Argonautica that owes a great deal to Apollonius of Rhodes' more famous epic.[3][4]

  1. ^ Kleywegt, A.J. (2005). Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, Book I : a commentary. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. p. xi. ISBN 9789004139244.
  2. ^ Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Anthony; Eidinow, Esther (2014). The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 827. ISBN 9780191016752. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  3. ^ "Gaius Valerius Flaccus" at Britannica.
  4. ^ Tim Stover, "Valerius Flaccus" at Oxford Bibliographies.

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