Few notes on the structure of Aratus’ Phaenomena
Few notes on the structure of Aratus’ Phaenomena

Summary/Abstract: The Poetry of Expressions (Phaen. 752-757) Arat refers very briefly to the methon cycle - a period of nineteen tropical years, during which the Moon and Sun calendars are matched. This technical information (which is, moreover, expressed rather quaintly), at first glance, is not relevant to the reader of the poem and the poet himself, whose primary goal is to describe the meteorological signs associated with the measurement and measurement of time. However, a more detailed analysis of the poem, more precisely, of its technical part (except for the introduction and the description of the planets) to 757 lines. The structure reveals the nuances of interesting and at first glance undetectable poetry compositions, as to talk about the refined stylistics of this passage (752-757). The structure of the technical part of the poem is summarized in a detailed schema (Fig.), Which reveals that the Arato principle of the leptottes applies not only to the surface's surface texture. The structural harmony of a rather technical poet's teaching does not seem to surprise (as it should be expected from the Hellenistic poet), but it is much more astonishing that this multidimensional, motivated harmony lies behind a consistently superficial order of structure and is noticeable not by the naked eye. From this perspective, the mention of the Methon cycle gets a clear meaning, although at first glance it does not seem so far.

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