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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