Aratus_Of_Soli

Aratus Of Soli Aratus of Soli: Celestial Phenomena in Phaenomena Of the various celebrated poets in Ancient Greece, Hesiod and Homer are two which stand out above all others for the magnitude of their world-wide popularity and the extent of their influence on future poets. While the fantastic epics of Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey have garnered far more acclaim and prestige than the works of his counterpart, it was Hesiod who largely prescribed the cosmologies of the Greeks during the 8th Century, B.C. In particular, Hesiod’s chief texts, Theogony and Works and Days, had profound effects on the styles and content of future Greek cosmological poetry. This influence is plainly evidenced in Aratus of Soli’s principal text, Phaenomena (written around the 3rd Century B.C.). Similarities are manifest in both the lyricism of the writings of Aratus and Hesiod, and in their discussions concerning the physical movement of celestial bodies. However, in Phaenomena, Aratus deviates from the overall objective of Hesiod’s texts, and concentrates almost entirely on celestial motions and expounds on the astrological features of Ancient Greek and Latin cosmologies. In the following essay, I will discuss various parallels between the texts of Hesiod and Aratus of aratus, hesiod, phaenomena, works, theogony, gods, texts, text, days, celestial, race, hesiod’s, greek, constellations, soli, divine, both, ancient, zeus, describes, aratus’, writes, between, while, two, themes, stories, natural, muses, motions, men, introduction, heavens, cosmology, bodies