Aratus

Name: Aratus
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521607124
Price: 20850 KES
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ISBN: 9780521607124

by Aratus

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries

ISBN-10 0521607124

ISBN-13 9780521607124

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 10th, 2004

Print length 616 Pages

Weight 786 grams

Dimensions 21.60 x 14.10 x 3.70 cms

Product Classification: Ancient (Classical) Greek Poetry Poetry / Poems Poetry / poems by individual poets Poetry by individual poets Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: poetry & poets Literary studies: poetry and poets

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Modelled on Hesiod's Works and Days, this is the first English edition of Phaenomena by Aratus, a highly original poet of the early third century BC. It is accompanied by a full introduction, facing-page translation and a line-by-line commentary.

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.

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