Remarkable epic poem that recounts the feat of Jason and the Argonauts who, aboard the wonderful ship Argo, set out in search of the Golden Fleece. Although the poem has its roots in the epic tradition, especially in the Homeric "Odyssey," the Hellenistic conception of the literary work is already essentially different from its earlier models. The poem, which decisively influenced later poetry, for example in Virgil's "The Aeneid", has often been unjustly forgotten. His treatment of the love passion of Medea reveals the author's great capacity for psychological deepening in the female soul, continuing a path already started by Euripides. Also the treatment of the hero, Jason, so much discussed, shows us that we are already facing a new era not only in the conception of the literary work, but also in the interpretation of man and the world.