![]() Several poetical works on various subjects, as well as a number of prose epistles, are attributed to Aratus, but none of them have come down to us, except his two astronomical poems in hexameter. His chief pursuits were medicine (which is also said to have been his profession), grammar, and philosophy. He then spent some time at the court of Antiochus I Soter of Syria, but subsequently returned to Pella in Macedon, where he died sometime before 240/239. Here he wrote his most famous poem, Phenomena. As a disciple of the Peripatetic philosopher Praxiphanes, in Athens, he met the Stoic philosopher Zeno, as well as Callimachus of Cyrene and Menedemus, the founder of the Eretrian school.Ībout 276 BC Aratus was invited to the court of the Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas, whose victory over the Gauls in 277 Aratus set to verse. ![]() He is known to have studied with Menecrates in Ephesus and Philitas in Cos. From these it appears that he was a native of Soli in Cilicia, (although one authority says Tarsus). There are several accounts of Aratus's life by anonymous Greek writers, and the Suda and Eudocia also mention him. Although Aratus was somewhat ignorant of Greek astronomy, his poem was very popular in the Greek and Roman world, as is proven by the large number of commentaries and Latin translations, some of which survive. The second half is called the Diosemeia (Διοσημεῖα "Forecasts"), and is chiefly about weather lore. It describes the constellations and other celestial phenomena. His major extant work is his hexameter poem Phenomena ( Greek: Φαινόμενα, Phainómena, "Appearances" Latin: Phaenomena), the first half of which is a verse setting of a lost work of the same name by Eudoxus of Cnidus. 315 BC/310 BC – 240) was a Greek didactic poet. For other uses, see Aratus (disambiguation). ![]()
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