Aratus
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Gender | Female |
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Born | Soli |
Died | Pella |
Greece | |
240 BC | |
Pella | |
Greece | |
Books | The Phainomena, Or 'heavenly Displays' of Aratus, Done Into Engl. Verse by R. Brown |
Phaenomena | |
Leiden Aratea | |
Aratus: Phaenomena | |
Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena | |
Date of birth | January 1,5585 |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1055193 |
Aratus Life story
Aratus was a Greek didactic poet. His major extant work is his hexameter poem Phenomena, the first half of which is a verse setting of a lost work of the same name by Eudoxus of Cnidus. It describes the constellations and other celestial phenomena.