Thread 24854418

>An alexandrine epic written before the events of the Iliad
>A crew of badass heroes, from Heracles and Orpheus to the fathers of Ajax and Achilles
>Starring a young man ushered by the orders of a tyrant king into traveling to far off lands on a pointless suicide mission
>numerous monsters, strange locales, cameos from other epics, alongside new and powerful characters
>all written with the benefit of hindsight and centuries of literary/scholarly advancement
>essentially the perfect premise for an epic to rival Homer
>turns to complete and utter shit after the first two books
Genuinely how did Apollonius fuck this up?

>>24854418 (OP)
What's your problem with the last two books?

>>24854418 (OP)
What? Medea is the best written character in the epic

>>24854418 (OP)
>>An alexandrine epic written before the events of the Iliad
I thought this was written much later, after Greece has started to decline.