Aratus Author

Aratus (ca. 315–ca. 240 BCE) was a Greek didactic poet from Soloi. He composed the Phaenomena while he was a resident of the court of the Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas. Stanley Lombardo is a translator, former professor of classics at the University of Kansas, and amateur astronomer. He has published translations of works by Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Sappho, Plato, Hesiod, Statius, and Dante, among others.