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Phaenomena

Phaenomena

by Aratus, Solensis

fromCambridge classical texts and commentaries

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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…