Aratus: Phaenomena

ISBN-13: 9780521582308 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 616 str.

Aratus; Douglas Kidd; Michael Reeve

Opis

Aratus of Soli was a highly original poet of the early third century BC, famous throughout antiquity for his poem on constellations and weather signs, and imitated by later Greek and Latin poets. This volume presents for the first time in English an edition of the poem with a full introduction, a facing translation and a line-by-line commentary. The text is based on a new reading of the manuscripts, including one not used before. The work provides a valuable basis for further research on Aratus and on Hellenistic poetry in general.

Recenzje

'… a splendid book which every specialist will want to own and every academic library must acquire'. Kevin Lee, CLASSICVM

Spis treści

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.