Aratus: Phaenomena

by: Kidd, D.

 Aratus of Soli was a highly original poet of the early third century BC, famous throughout antiquity for his didactic epic on constellations and weather signs, and imitated by later Greek and Latin poets. Modelled on Hesiod's Works and Days the poem is cleverly updated to appeal to the interests of contemporary Greek readers. This volume presents for the first time in English an edition of the poem with a full introduction, facing translation and a line-by-line commentary. The introduction explains the literary and scientific background, the characteristic features of Aratus's language, style and metre, and the transmission of the text to the end of the Middle Ages. The commentary gives help with the content of the poem and aims to resolve the many problems of text and interpretation. The text is based on a new reading of the manuscripts, including one not used before

Introduction. Life of Aratus ; The Phaenomena ; The astronomy and weather signs ; Language, style and the hexameter ; Contemporary and later poets ; Scholia and commentators ; Text and manuscripts
Text and translation
Commentary

Subjects:
Aratus, Solensis. Criticism and interpretation
Astronomie ancienne Poésie
Astronomy, Ancient
Astronomy, Ancient Poetry
Constellations
Constellations Poetry
Constellations Poésie
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Didactic poetry
Didactic poetry, Greek
Didactic poetry, Greek Translations into English
Didactic poetry, Greek Translations into French
Literatura grega clássica
Phaenomena (Aratus, Solensis)
Planets
Planets Poetry
Planètes Poésie
Poesia épica
Poetry
Poésie didactique
Temps (Météorologie) Poésie
Translations
Weather
Weather Poetry

Series:
Cambridge classical texts and commentaries, 34

xxiii, 590 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Aratus: Phaenomena

by: Kidd, D.

• ISBN-13: 9780521607124 / 978-0-521-60712-4
• ISBN-03: 0521607124 / 0-521-60712-4
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004