Aratus: Phaenomena
Series: Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries; 34;
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 10 June 2004
- ISBN 9780521607124
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages616 pages
- Size 215x143x38 mm
- Weight 790 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
The first English edition of Aratus's Phaenomena, complete with full introduction, facing-page translation and a line-by-line commentary.
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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.
' ... 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
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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