Quotes:Aratus

Zirkoff, Boris

Aratus. Greek didactic poet of the third century b.c., contemporary with Aristarchus of Samos and Theocritus. Native of Soli in Cilicia; was invited to the court of Antigonus Gonatas, king of Macedonia, where he spent the latter part of his life. His chief pursuits were physics, grammar and philosophy. His two poetic works, *Phainomena and Diosêmeia, treat of astronomy and weather; in the first one there occurs the passage quoted by St. Paul in his address to the Athenians (Acts, xvii, 28), Aratus drew a great deal from Eudoxus’ writings of a century earlier, and his astronomical knowledge seems to be rather weak. In spite of this he became very popular in both the Grecian and Roman world, to judge by the number of commentaries and Latin translations.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 11, p. 564