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Melville and Aratus. (Herman Melville)
Magazine article from: Notes and Queries
...interesting annotations may well be the name ~
Aratus', marked in the margin of Acts 17...caused Melville to write in the margin: ~
Aratus,' an annotation indicating that he knew the Stoic poet
Aratus's Phaenomena, which opens with the...
Hellenistic reference in the proem of Theocritus, 'Idyll' 22.
Magazine article from: The Classical Quarterly
...storm scene of the proem references to
Aratus' Phaenomena and Apollonius Rhodius...Theocritus' familiarity with the poetry of
Aratus has been the subject of some dispute. While Callimachus writes of
Aratus with admiration,(2) and Apollonius...
Charting the skies — the ancient Greek way
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
...A Commentary on the 'Phaenomena' of
Aratus and Eudoxus," written by astronomer...obscure. His name is not mentioned,
Aratus' name," Macfarlane said. "It says...For we are also his offspring.' "
Aratus and the Greeks of the time believed in...
The origins of the constellations.
Magazine article from: American Scientist
...C. in the Greek didactic poem The Phaenomena by
Aratus. In this poem,
Aratus refers to 48 constellations, all of which we recognize...are now part of other constellations. Most of the
Aratus constellations are visible to observers at midnorthern...
Byrhferth's Enchiridion.
Magazine article from: Notes and Queries
...characteristic of two ancient didactic poems, the Phaenomena of
Aratus and Virgil's Georgics, both of which were probably accessible...author and the English manuscripts of Cicero's translation of
Aratus (Gneuss, ASE 9, Nos. 186, 373, 423) have a strong Fleury...
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