Aratus

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Meaning

(Greek mythology) A healer and a son of Asclepius and his lover, Aristodama, and the paternal halfbrother of Aceso, Aglaea, Hygieia, Iaso, Meditrina, Panacea, Machaon, Podaleirios, Telesphoros.

An ancient Greek didactic poet.

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Although he wrote at least fourteen books, only his commentary on the popular astronomical poem by Aratus was preserved by later copyists. Source: Internet

Berlin London: LIT, p.13 Therefore, they do not form a part of the Plutarchian canon of single biographies – as represented by the Life of Aratus of Sicyon and the Life of Artaxerxes II (the biographies of Hesiod, Pindar, Crates and Daiphantus were lost). Source: Internet

GUR was one of the fifteen "stars of Ea ".sfn In the 3rd century BC, the Greek didactic poet Aratus wrote of, but did not name the constellation,sfn instead calling the two crowns Στεφάνοι (Stephanoi). Source: Internet

Tacitus, Dial. Orat. 12. Lactantius quotes from a lost translation by Ovid of Aratus ' Phaenomena, although the poem's ascription to Ovid is insecure because it is never mentioned in Ovid's other works. Source: Internet

Hipparchus's only preserved work is Τῶν Ἀράτου καὶ Εὐδόξου φαινομένων ἐξήγησις ("Commentary on the Phaenomena of Eudoxus and Aratus"). Source: Internet

Aratus describes Ophiuchus as trampling on Scorpius with his feet. Source: Internet

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