Aratos de Soles
See also: Aratos
Aratus or Aratos de Soles was a poet and Greek astronomer of third century BC
Born with Plates in Cilicie, towards -315, it was contemporary of Théocrite and died in Pella (Macedonia) towards -245.
He lived at the court of Antigone Gonatas, king of Macedonia, and composed on astronomy a poem entitled the Phenomena and the Forecasts , that Cicéron, Germanicus and Avienus translated into Latin worms, and who was commented on by Hipparque, Ératosthène and Théon of Alexandria.
Biography
Aratus de Soles, wire of Athénodore and Létophile, was born towards 315 av. J.C. We know by Suidas that he was the pupil of the grammairien Ménécrate d' Éphèse and the philosophers Timon and Ménédème. Towards -291, Aratus left to study in Athens under the direction of Praxiphane and Zénon de Citium. It is at the court of Macedonia, under the reign of Antigone Gonatas between 276 and 278, qu ' it composed its main work, the Phénomènes , where it put in worms the teaching of Eudoxe de Cnide. When Pyrrhus invades Macedonia, Aratus joined initially the court of Antiochos I {{er}}, wire of Séleucos I {{er}}, but turned over a few years to Macedonia later, where he died.
The Phenomena
Works of Aratus, only the Phenomena, a poem of 1154 worms in Greek on astronomy, arrived to us. If the exposed doctrines follow the ideas of Eudoxe essentially, Aratus added the catasterism to it, i.e. the transformation of the beings into stars or constellations. The second part of the poem treats weather signs (in Greek diosemeia ). The poem of Aratus is famous for its darkness, because the author, carried by poetic virtuosity, neglected the clarity of the expression in the explanation of cosmology.
Posterity
Many Latin authors took as a starting point the work of Aratus, among which most known are Manilius and Virgile. Other imitations do not miss interest, like those of Cicéron, Germanicus and Avienus. Being given the darkness of certain passages of the Phenomena , the Glose S on this poem appeared as of Antiquity. Most known are those of Geminos of Rhodos (1st century), of Achilles (about year 200), of Leontius (towards 600). The star names which we use come for the majority from the poem from Aratus: Ptolémée preserved them in its Almageste and the Arab tradition transmitted them to us.
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