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Parua figura poli: Ovid's Vestalia (Fasti 6.249–468) and the Phaenomena of Aratus*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2013

Emma Gee
Emma Gee
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University of Exeter
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      arte Syracosia suspensus in aere clauso
      stat globus, immensi parua figura poli (Ovid, Fasti 6.277–8)

‘The astronomy in the Fasti is indebted to Aratus, as was presumably Ovid's own Phaenomena’. The relationship between the astronomical material in Ovid's Fasti and the astronomical poem by Aratus of Soli, composed under the auspices of Antigonus Gonatas in about 278 B.C., is indisputable; but the nature of this relationship has not been explored. Such an exploration may add a new layer of meaning to Ovid's poem, as an entity which responds not only to aetiological models but also to ‘scientific’ didactic models.

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Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society (Second Series) , Volume 43 , 1998 , pp. 21 - 40
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Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 1998

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