• Preface and Acknowledgements


• Abbreviations


• List of Illustrations


• Introduction


• Chapter 1 Poetic Justice


• Chapter 2 Genealogy


• Chapter 3 Wandering Stars


• Chapter 4 Lucretius' Aratea


• Chapter 5 Planetary Motion


• Chapter 6 Late Antique Aratus


• Epilogue


• Appendix A


• Appendix B


• Appendix C


• Bibliography


• Index

Emma Gee is Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews.

With Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition, Emma Gee offers a study of the Phaenomena of Aratus and addresses the poem's place within the unique development of Western cosmology.