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	The Internet Classics Archive \| Aratus by Plutarch
		Aratus, hearing this, despatches away Xenocles with two of his own servants, Seuthas and Technon, to view the wall, resolving, if possible, secretly and with one risk to hazard all on a single trial, rather than carry on a contest as a private man against a tyrant by long war and open force.
		Aratus wrote to him to dissuade him as far as he could from that expedition, being very unwilling the Achaeans should be engaged in a quarrel with Cleomenes, who was a daring man, and making extraordinary advances to power.
		Aratus was encompassed on every side with clamour and confusion; he saw the whole of Peloponnesus shaking hands around him, and the cities everywhere set in revolt by men desirous of innovations.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/aratus.html (6109 words)

	Aratus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Aratus (Greek Aratos) (circa 315 B./310 B.C - 240 B.C) was a Macedonian Greek mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, botanist and poet.
		Aratus was born in Soli on the island of Cyprus.
		Aratus died in Pella, the capital of the Macedonian Kingdom (today central Macedonia in Greece).
	www.theezine.net /a/aratus.html (102 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Our Young Folks' Plutarch by Rosalie Kaufman
		Aratus laid his scheme before two or three important personages, who tried to dissuade him from carrying it into effect, but when they saw that he was determined, and that his energy was tempered by remarkably sound judgment, they promised to lend him their aid.
		Aratus knew this perfectly well, and so, to put the spies off their guard, he went to [255] the market-place early in the morning, stood some time conversing with a number of people, and in various ways made himself observed.
		Aratus had some claim on the friendship of this king, for he had always been in the habit of collecting for him the best works of the celebrated painters, some of whom were his personal friends.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=kaufman&book=plutarch&story=aratus (3542 words)

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		It was an extraordinary piece, and therefore Aratus was fain to spare it for the workmanship, and yet, instigated by the hatred he bore the tyrants, commanded it to be taken down.
		So soon, therefore, as Antigonus was told that Aratus was coming up to him, he saluted the rest of the company after the ordinary manner, but him he received at the very first approach with especial honour, and finding him afterwards to be both good and wise, admitted him to his nearer familiarity.
		Aratus perceived what was done to him, but, knowing that it was in vain to make any words of it, bore it patiently and with silence, as if it had been some common and usual distemper.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/aratus.1b.txt (7659 words)

	Aratus - Plutarch's Lives - translated by John Dryden and revised by Arthur Hugh Clough, Book, etext (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Aratus, hearing this, dispatches away Xenocles with two of his own servants, Seuthas and Technon, to view the wall, resolving, if possible, secretly and with one risk to hazard all on a single trial, rather than carry on a contest as a private man against a tyrant by long war and open force.
		Aratus wrote to him to dissuade him as far as he could from that expedition, being very unwilling the Achæans should be engaged in a quarrel with Cleomenes, who was a daring man, and making extraordinary advances to power.
		Aratus was encompassed on every side with clamor and confusion; he saw the whole of Peloponnesus shaking around him, and the cities everywhere set in revolt by men desirous of innovations.
	whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au /words/authors/P/Plutarch/prose/plutachslives/aratus.html (7952 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.04.29 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Following Aratus comparatively closely, he dedicates 44 lines to his digression on Virgo in comparison to Aratus' 41 (as B points out, this small discrepancy is due principally to Germanicus' insertion of a high-style invocation to the goddess [98-102] in which he asks her to attend to his song).
		Aratus circumvents the problem by describing his Golden Age as comparatively highly developed: thus, as mentioned, there is agriculture and there may even be some sort of institutionalization of justice in the form of the old men's council (105-107), which assembles ein agorêi (106), a setting that suggests a certain degree of urbanization.
		As BC point out, this reflects the idea--alien to Aratus but found prominently in Ovid Met 1.89-93 and elsewhere--that the Golden Age is characterized by an absence of legislation and that the introduction of laws (caused by the rise of crime) is a sign of decline.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2003/2003-04-29.html (1954 words)

	Encyclopedia: Aratus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He was born in Soli on the island of Cyprus, later spending time at the Egyptian court of Ptolemy Philadelphus, and the Syrian court of Antiochus I.
		His principal patron was the Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas, whose victory over the Celts in 277 BC Aratus set to verse.
		Aratus also wrote a number of other poems, many of an astronomical or technical nature.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Aratus (1314 words)

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		Aratus Kent was not the town’s only peripatetic son: in 1853 the population was only 2962.
		Aratus was fitted for college at the academy at nearby Westfield, Massachusetts, (where the only church was Congregational) At Westfield Aratus studied under the Rev. Ralph Emerson, a member of a family of ministers with whom Kent would have many associations.
		Aratus Kent, by entering Yale as a sophomore, avoided being the victim of the traditional "fagging" of freshmen.
	www.angelfire.com /il/rbn3/bkentweb.html (10356 words)

	The Apostle and the Poet: Paul and Aratus
		Aratus not to demonstrate his erudition but to show the Athenians that their religion is tantamount to idolatry.
		Aratus evidently spent much time in the circle of writers and artists who enjoyed the patronage of the Macedonian king Antigonus Gonatas.
		It is noteworthy that Aratus commences his poem with the words, "let us begin with Zeus," for the gods who were conventionally invoked by Greek poets were the Muses, the goddesses of poetic inspiration.
	spindleworks.com /library/rfaber/aratus.htm (2697 words)

	Aratus Biography / Biography of Aratus Biography Biography
		Aratus (271-213 BC) was a Greek statesman and general of distinction whose main goal in life was the destruction of tyrants in the Peloponnesus.
		Aratus mishandled the campaign and persuaded Philip V of Macedon and the Hellenic League to declare war on Aetolia.
		As adjutant to Philip, Aratus fostered Achaean interests, but the Achaean army declined and the league was on the verge of collapse when Aratus, again general, reorganized it in 217.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-aratus/index.html (521 words)

	ARAUCANIANS - LoveToKnow Article on ARAUCANIANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		When Philip V. of Macedon came to expel these in irauders, Aratus became the kings adviser, and averted a af ~acherous attack on Messene (215); before long, however, he tQi ~t favor and in 213 was poisoned.
		To Aratus is due the th Idit of having made the Achaean League an effective instru- th ~nt against tyrants and foreign enemies.
		Although Aratus was ignorant th astronomy, his poem attracted the favorable notice of 18 stinguished specialists, such as Hipparchus, who wrote com- T(entaries upon it.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AR/ARAUCANIANS.htm (1258 words)

	AllRefer.com - Aratus, Greek statesman and general (Ancient History, Greece, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Aratus, Greek statesman and general (Ancient History, Greece, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Aratus, Greek statesman and general, Ancient History, Greece, Biographies
		B.C., Greek statesman and general of Sicyon, prime mover and principal leader of the Second Achaean League.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AratuGen.html (211 words)

	Arachnion, n. 2 - Hunter: Written in the Stars: Poetry and Philosophy in the «Phaenomena» of Aratus
		Aratus' poem is not cosmogonical in the true sense, but it is certainly cosmological, and to this extent Aratus evokes the originary voice of the archaic theológos, 'speaker about the gods', while writing in a very new mode.
		Aratus' description of shipwreck makes no distinctions between the fates of 'just' and 'unjust' men, although shipwreck was a notorious instance in which the punishment of the unjust often involved the suffering of the innocent.
		Aratus' poem, unlike the work of Eudoxus or Hipparchus, is not merely about the universe, but is also universal in the sense that it presents itself as available to all, farmers, sailors, literary scholars.
	www.cisi.unito.it /arachne/num2/hunter.html (12526 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 256 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Tarsus; that he was invited to the court of An-tigonus Gonatas, king of Macedonia, where he spent all the latter part of his life; and that his chief pursuits were physic (which is also said to have been his profession), grammar, and philosophy, in which last he was instructed by the Stoic Dionysius Heracleotes.
		The design of the poem is to give an introduction to the knowledge of the constellations, with the rules for their risings and settings ; and of the circles of the sphere, amongst which the milky way is reckoned.
		Hipparchus (about a century later), who was a scientific astronomer and observer, has left a commentary upon the andaiv6/j.sva of Eudoxus and Aratus, occasioned by the discrepancies which he had noticed between his own observations and their descriptions.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0265.html (1049 words)

	Phaenomena - ARATUS of SOLI - Dr Shepherd Simpson
		Definition: [Source Texts of Astrology] Aratus of Soli [c 315 - 240 BC] in Phaenomena ["Appearances"] set into verse the Phaenomena of Eudoxus [c 390 - 340 BC], a description of the risings and settings of the Greek constellations.
		Aratus does not mention any constellations from around the Southern Celestial Pole, indicating that the constellations were named by those living in the Northern Hemisphere.
		Various commentators have used further positional constellation evidence to conclude that the constellation-namers were the Babylonians, and that Aratus [and Eudoxus before him] was providing a Greek version of their signs.
	www.geocities.com /astrologysources/classicalgreece/phaenomena (3986 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.09.01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In the late second or early third century a secondary edition appeared, designated F by Martin, though K. doesn't use this symbol; it was based on the earlier edition which was stripped of its scholia and fitted with new scholia on the catasterisms; it also introduced new variants into the text.
		This branch of the tradition is represented by the eighth-century Latin translation known as the Aratus Latinus and the fifteenth-century S(corialensis).
		And when Aratus describes the Pleiades (254-267), he credits Zeus with making them a sign of the onset of plowing time but omits their importance for the sailing season.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1999/1999-09-01.html (3134 words)

	Plutarch's Lives: Aratus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Becoming, by this means, familiarly acquainted with Aegias, and being by him led into discourses concerning the fortress, he told him that in going up to his brother he had observed, in the face of the rock, a side-cleft, leading to that part of the wall of the castle which was lower than the rest.
		Aratus, having absolute power given him to bring these to condign punishment, executed as many of them as he could find at Sicyon, but going about to find them out and punish them at Corinth also, he irritated the people, already unsound in feeling and weary of the Achaean government.
		So Aratus and the king, plighting their faith to each other at Pegae, immediately marched towards the enemy, with whom they had frequent engagements near the city, Cleomenes maintaining a strong position, and the Corinthians making a very brisk defense.
	www.gymnasiax.com /texts/plutarch/plutarch65.html (7928 words)

	Theology WebSite: Church History Study Helps: Stoicism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Aratus gave a Stoic coloring to his poem, and so he was important in the spread of Stoic ideas.
		Everyone would know Aratus' poem, and this partic.ular idea was a Stoic commonplace, so this quotation does not of itself necessarily indicate any extensive knowledge of Greek fiterature.
		Aratus more than the founders of Stoicism made its ideas a part of the common Greek tradition.
	www.theologywebsite.com /history/earlystoicism.shtml (890 words)

	Aratus (crater) - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Aratus is a small lunar impact crater located on the highland to the south and east of the rugged Montes Apennines range.
		To the east is the Mare Serenitatis, and to the southwest is the somewhat larger Conon crater.
		North-northeast of Aratus crater is the landing site of the Apollo 15 mission, just beyond Mons Hadley Delta.
	www.music.us /education/A/Aratus-(crater).htm (309 words)

	Aratus of Sicyon -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Aratus nevertheless defied the anti-Roman policy of Philip V of Macedonia; his death, popularly linked to Philip, was more likely caused by tuberculosis.
		More results on "Aratus of Sicyon" when you join.
		The conflict with the Achaean League under Aratus of Sicyon began in 229.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9355684?tocId=9355684 (558 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.05.20
		To take the first example, P. compares the proem of Aratus to Germanicus' proem, illustrating that although the two poems begin with the same phrase (ek Dios archômestha = ab Iove principium), they quickly diverge: Aratus' Stoic Zeus is left behind in favor of imperial panegyric.
		The point of each section is to illustrate the variety of ways and methods in which Germanicus expanded upon Aratus' version.
		The book should have included a map of constellations, and P. himself admits that visual aids are useful in reading astronomical poems (speaking of Aratus): "Whatever difficulties the reader may encounter in following the descriptions of the constellation figures are easily solved by the use of a celestial globe or star chart" (pp.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-05-20.html (2070 words)

	JHA: Review of Gee, Ovid, Aratus and Augustus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The first, comprising Chapters 1 through 3, is primarily a literary analysis of astronomical material in the Phaenomena of Aratus and Ovid's Fasti; the second perspective (Chapters 4-6) integrates these literary considerations into a discussion of astronomy's role in the cultural and political life of the Augustan Principate (27 BCE-14 CE).
		While a substantial portion of Gee's treatment is more properly of interest to the student of Classical literature or even of philosophy, there does remain a goodly amount of material relating to astronomy in Roman history and culture.
		Moreover, the significance of star myths grows in importance in the Roman cultural milieu, for in the symbolic imagery of Augustan poetry individual astral stories are linked by literary and artistic allusion to a public representation of imperial administration and political mythology.
	webserver.lemoyne.edu /~mcmahon/JHAGee.html (689 words)

	Index of names: Ar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		276/6_ Aratus of Soli is a pupil of Zenon, or possibly of Dionysius of Her
		219/13 Aratus, the son of Aratus, becomes General of the Achaean League.
		218/19 Philippus and Aratus are reconciled at the assembly of the Achaean
	www.attalus.org /names/Ar.html (3987 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Astrology
		About 270 B.C. the poet Aratus of Soli in his didactic poem, "Phænomena", explained the system of Eudoxus, and in a poem called "Diosemeia", which was appended to the former, he interprets the rules of judicial and natural astrology that refer to the various changes of the stars.
		The poem of Aratus was greatly admired by both the Greeks and the Romans; Cicero translated it into Latin, and Hygius, Ovid's friend, wrote a commendary on it.
		In this age astrology was as highly developed as in its second period of prosperity, at the Renaissance.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02018e.htm (7050 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Aratus: Phaenomena (Cambridge Classical Texts & Commentaries) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Aratus of Soli was a highly original poet of the early third century BC, famous throughout antiquity for his poem on constellations and weather signs, and imitated by later Greek and Latin poets.
		The text is based on a new reading of the manuscripts, including one not used before.
		The work provides a valuable basis for further research on Aratus and on Hellenistic poetry in general.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/052158230X (311 words)

	Aratus * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Aratus * People, Places, and Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Aratus of Sikyon (Sicyon) (271-213 BCE); A Greek general and leader of the Akhaian (Achaean) League.
		Cut and paste the following text for use in a paper or electronic document report.
	www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Aratus_1.html (229 words)

	Pricenoia.com - Aratus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ovid, Aratus and Augustus: Astronomy in Ovid's "Fasti" (Cambridge Classical Studies)
		Translating the Heavens: Aratus, Germanicus, and the Poetics of Latin Translation (Lang Classical Studies)
		"Aratus" Ascribed to Germanicus Caesar (University London Classical Study)
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