Aratus: Phaenomena
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- Real Author: Aratus
- Editor: Douglas Kidd, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Date Published: October 2004
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521607124
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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.
Read more- The commentary is a major advance on previous interpretations of the text
- The text is based on readings from 14 manuscripts, including one not previously available
- This volume is a genuinely important and innovative book and is the only full-scale commentary available in English
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' … the commentary is so rich and detailed and illuminates so much that previously was obscure … one can only be filled with admiration and gratitude for the painstaking scholarship and devotion that went into the making of this book.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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'… a splendid book which every specialist will want to own and every academic library must acquire'. Kevin Lee, CLASSICVM
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- Date Published: October 2004
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521607124
- length: 616 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 143 x 38 mm
- weight: 0.79kg
- contains: 2 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction:
1. Life of Aratus
2. The Phaenomena
3. The astronomy and weather signs
4. Language, style and the hexameter
5. Contemporary and later poets
6. Scholia and commentators
7. Text and manuscripts
Text and Translation
Commentary
Indexes.
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