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.
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"...Kidd has produced a fine work of scholarship...." Robert Renehan, Religious Studies Review
"Kidd's text will now be the standard. It is the product of a critical judgment that consistently makes the right choices in that most difficult of textual traditions....the commentary is so rich and detailed and illuminates so much....one can only be filled with admiration and graditude for the painstaking scholarship and devotion that went into the making of this book....Kidd's book is the true editio princeps of Aratus's Paenomena, five hundred years overdue, which at long las t give us our author pristino nitori restitutus." Mark Possanza, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"Kidd's edition, however, is obviously the result of a long labor, and it promises to have a long life as the definitive work on this important, but neglected, poem." --Phoenix, A.-M. Lewis, Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics York University
"Kidd's text will now be the standard. It is the product of a critical judgment that consistently makes the right choices in that most difficult of textual traditions....the commentary is so rich and detailed and illuminates so much....one can only be filled with admiration and graditude for the painstaking scholarship and devotion that went into the making of this book....Kidd's book is the true editio princeps of Aratus's Paenomena, five hundred years overdue, which at long las t give us our author pristino nitori restitutus." Mark Possanza, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"Kidd's edition, however, is obviously the result of a long labor, and it promises to have a long life as the definitive work on this important, but neglected, poem." --Phoenix, A.-M. Lewis, Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics York University
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Text: English, Greek (translation)
Original Language: Greek
Original Language: Greek
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"Let us begin with Zeus, whom we men never leave unspoken." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
same sedes, pure subjunctive, same metrical position, seasonal signs, transmitted reading, bucolic diaeresis, visible constellations, weather signs, celestial circles, next constellation, successive risings, simultaneous risings, demonstrative article, ecliptic circle, primary manuscript, storm sign, northern tropic, kermes oak, verbal echo, constellation figure, chiastic pattern, small constellation, fourth foot, weather lore Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Bear, Little Bear, Milky Way, Ursae Majoris, Silver Age, Southern Fish, Bronze Age, Maass Aratea, Hermann's Bridge, Ursae Minoris, Professor Reeve, Schneider Lex, Homeric Hymns, Professor Diggle, Varro Atac New!
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same sedes, pure subjunctive, same metrical position, seasonal signs, transmitted reading, bucolic diaeresis, visible constellations, weather signs, celestial circles, next constellation, successive risings, simultaneous risings, demonstrative article, ecliptic circle, primary manuscript, storm sign, northern tropic, kermes oak, verbal echo, constellation figure, chiastic pattern, small constellation, fourth foot, weather lore Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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