Description
The translation is full of linguistic verve and lively intelligence-thoroughly attractive and rewarding to read. The concise and helpful commentary is a further boon. -- John Fitch, University of Victoria
About the Author
Aaron Poochigian is an adjunct professor of languages and literature at Brooklyn College.
Reviews
Those who always wanted to read the Phaenomena in translation, but never came round to doing it will be pleased with this accessible, nimble translation in flowing English couplets, which conveys the pleasure of Aratus well. Both the introduction and the notes are up-to-date, clear, and useful. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010 Poochigian here gives us an Aratus for our own time, turned in witty heroic couplets which fittingly recall Pope's didactic poems, decently faithful to the original, and helpfully introduced and annotated... This lively and polished version illuminates why this potentially austere cataloguepoem was so enthusiastically read for so many centuries, and it is to be warmly welcomed. Times Literary Supplement 2011
Book Information
ISBN 9780801894664
Author Aratus
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 181g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm