Phaenomena
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Aratus Solensis
Aratus Solensis
c. 315 BCE–c. 240 BCE · Soli (Cilicia)
Aratus of Soli was a Greek poet of the 3rd century BCE, from the city of Soli in Cilicia, who spent time at the Macedonian court. He is famous for the 'Phaenomena,' a didactic poem describing the constellations and weather-signs, which became one of the most widely read and translated works of antiquity and is quoted in the New Testament. The poem drew its astronomy partly from the work of Eudoxus.
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Soli was a Greek coastal city in Cilicia, in southern Asia Minor (modern south-central Turkey, near Mersin). It was the birthplace of the Stoic philosopher Chrysippus, the school's most important systematizer, and of the poet Aratus, author of the astronomical poem Phaenomena.
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