Phaenomena

Name: Phaenomena
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ISBN: 9780521607124

ISBN-10: 0521607124

ISBN-13: 9780521607124

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Authors: Aratus, Douglas Kidd, James Diggle, Neil Hopkinson, Jonathan Powell

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"The Phaenomena is a didactic epic poem modelled on Hesiod's Works and Days and cleverly updated to appeal to contemporary readers interested in new trends in Greek poetry, philosophy and science. Aratus invokes a beneficent Stoic Zeus who has created the constellations and their movements to help men follow the progress of the solar year, and also provides a great variety of signs in sky, air, earth and sea as warnings of weather changes." "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 introduction explains the literary and scientific background, the characteristic features of…

Book details

List price: $124.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/10/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 616
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 1.38" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



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


Indexes