Phaenomena
By: Aratus ; translated, with an introduction and notes, by Aaron Poochigian.
Contributors: Poochigian, Aaron, 1973-; Eudoxus, of Cnidus, ca. 400-ca. 350 B.C.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780801894657; 9780801894664
Subjects: Didactic poetry, Greek -- Translations into English; Astronomy, Ancient -- Poetry; Constellations -- Poetry; Planets -- Poetry; Weather -- Poetry
Genres: Translations into English; Poetry
Work titles: Phaenomena.
Description: "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" -- BACK COVER.
Notes: "A verse rendering of Eudoxus' book of the same name"--Data view.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Phaenomena; title: Appendix I : Rising and settings; title: Appendix II : Bayer designations; title: Notes on the translation.