The Sky Is Our Song: The Phaenomena of Aratus - Hardcover
by Aratus
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Availability:In StockContributor:Aratus, Stanley Lombardo (Translator), Cynthia C. Polsley (Contribution by)Publish date:02/12/25Pages:136
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226836980ISBN-10:226836983UPC:9780226836980Book Category:Poetry, Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, Ancient and Classical, AncientBook Topic:GreeceSize:7.60 x 6.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCW53T9470
The Sky Is Our Song: The Phaenomena of Aratus
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,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226836980ISBN-10:226836983UPC:9780226836980Book Category:Poetry, Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, Ancient and Classical, AncientBook Topic:GreeceSize:7.60 x 6.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCW53T9470
Aratus (ca. 315-ca. 240 BCE) was a Greek didactic poet from Soloi. He composed the Phaenomena while he was a resident of the court of the Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas. Stanley Lombardo is a translator, former professor of classics at the University of Kansas, and amateur astronomer. He has published translations of works by Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Sappho, Plato, Hesiod, Statius, and...
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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2nd Edition
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Aratus, Stanley Lombardo (Translator), Cynthia C. Polsley (Contribution by)
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