Aratos (English spelling)

Japanese: アラトス（英語表記）Aratos

[Born] Around 315 BC. Cilicia, Soloi
Died 240/239 BC. Macedonian Greek poet. Representative of the Hellenistic didactic poets. He became acquainted with Callimachus in Athens, and in 276 BC was invited to the court of Antigonus, King of Macedonia, where he celebrated the king's marriage with a hymn. He later visited the court of Antiochus in Syria, but returned to Macedonia in his later years. His main work, the Phainomena, is an epic poem of 1,154 lines that sings about the positions and movements of celestial bodies and omens of the weather. Its literary value is recognized not as a scientific description of celestial phenomena, but as a collection of beautiful star legends. It became famous immediately after its publication, and was translated into Latin by many Romans, including Cicero.

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Japanese:

[生]前315頃.キリキア，ソロイ
[没]前240/前239. マケドニア
ギリシアの詩人。ヘレニズム時代の教訓詩詩人の代表者。アテネでカリマコスと知合い，前 276年マケドニア王アンチゴノスの宮廷に招かれ，王の結婚を賛歌によって祝した。のちシリアのアンチオコスの宮廷を訪れたが，晩年マケドニアに戻った。主著『現象』 Phainomenaは天体の位置と運動，天候の予兆について歌った 1154行の叙事詩で，天体現象の科学的記述としてではなく，美しい星の伝説集として文学的価値が認められる。発表と同時に有名になり，キケロをはじめ多くのローマ人によってラテン語に翻訳された。

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