caa a22 4500 38805963X CHVBK 20180307125116.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0068673500002121 doi S0068673500002121 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0068673500002121 Gee Emma University of Exeter Parua figura poli: Ovid's Vestalia (Fasti 6.249-468) and the Phaenomena of Aratus [Elektronische Daten] [Emma Gee] 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. Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 1998 Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Cambridge University Press 43(1998), 21-40 0068-6735 43<21 1998 43 CCJ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500002121 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500002121 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Gee Emma University of Exeter NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Cambridge University Press 43(1998), 21-40 0068-6735 43<21 1998 43 CCJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge