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  • Delphi Complete Works of Aratus - Appearances (Illustrated)

    by Aratus of Soli ...
    Series Book 108 - Delphi Ancient Classics
    Aratus of Soli was a third century BC didactic poet at the court of Antigonus Gonatas of Macedonia, where he wrote his famous astronomical poem ‘Phaenomena’ (Appearances). It describes the constellations and other celestial phenomena, while the latter section is chiefly concerned with weather lore. Aratus’ poem was extremely popular both in the Greek and Roman world, as demonstrated by the large ... Read more

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  • Constellation Myths

    with Aratus's Phaenomena

    by Eratosthenes, Hyginus, Aratus ...
    Translated by Robin Hard ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens.' The constellations we recognize today were first mapped by the ancient Greeks, who arranged the stars into patterns for that purpose. In the third century BC Eratosthenes compiled a handbook of astral mythology in which the constellations were associated with figures from legend, and ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Sky Is Our Song

    The "Phaenomena" of Aratus

    by Aratus ...
    Translated by Stanley Lombardo ...
    An ancient Greek guide to the heavens, translated in a new accessible modern English edition.A poetic guide to the heavens, the Phaenomena of Aratus—dating from around 270 BCE—was widely known across the ancient world, second only in fame to the works of Homer. Beginning with an invocation to Zeus, the poem describes the constellations of the northern and southern skies, the celestial sphere, and ... Read more

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  • Phaenomena

    by Aratus ...
    Translated by Aaron Poochigian ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity
    After the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Phaenomena was the most widely read poem in the ancient world. Its fame was immediate. It was translated into Latin by Ovid and Cicero and quoted by St. Paul in the New Testament, and it was one of the few Greek poems translated into Arabic.Aratus’ Phaenomena is a didactic poem—a practical manual in verse that teaches the reader to identify constellations and ... Read more

    $25.39 USD

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  • Atlantis the Eyewitnesses, Part II Legacy of Atlantis

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  • Skywatcher's Companion: Constellations and Their Mythology

    Constellations and Their Mythology

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  • Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans

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