Emma Gee

Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition, Emma Gee offers a study of the Phaenomena of Aratus and addresses the poem's place within the unique development of Western cosmology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9780199781683
• ISBN-10: 0199781680
• Artikelnr.: 36932217

Autorenporträt

Emma Gee is Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Poetic Justice
Chapter 2 Genealogy
Chapter 3 Wandering Stars
Chapter 4 Lucretius' Aratea
Chapter 5 Planetary Motion
Chapter 6 Late Antique Aratus
Epilogue
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Bibliography
Index