Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus

Thomas, Oliver

Abstract

An eighth-century Latin version of a Greek edition of Aratus preserves valuable ancient scholarship on the Phaenomena, including material not preserved in Greek. Examination of over thirteen thousand Latin–Greek correspondences enables one to interpret passages of the Latin that have so far resisted analysis, including information about an ancient edition equipped with critical signs and commentary, ancient discussion of the primary narratee in Aratus and Homer, and the alternative proem to Anclides (SH 84).

Citation

Thomas, O. (2023). Three Passages of Ancient Prolegomena to Aratus. Classical Quarterly, 73(1), 419-435. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838823000435

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 14, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Oct 31, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023-05
• Deposit Date: May 5, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: May 5, 2022
• Journal: Classical Quarterly
• Print ISSN: 0009-8388
• Electronic ISSN: 1471-6844
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 73
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 419-435
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838823000435
• Keywords: Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy, History, Classics
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5690449
• Publisher URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/three-passages-of-ancient-prolegomena-to-aratus/F1D8AEF31BE88DD03A53A37F5943692E
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