The Pun and the Moon in the Sky
Aratus' Λεπτη Acrostic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9343166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mathias Hanses (0000-0003-3952-2474, Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 609-614 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009838814000184 |
| OpenAlex | W2316472305 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 31 |
Aratus has been notorious for his wordplay since the first decades of his reception. Hellenistic readers such as Callimachus, Leonidas, or ‘King Ptolemy’ seem to have picked up on the pun on the author's own name at Phaenomena 2, as well as on the famous λεπτή acrostic at Phaen. 783–6 that will be revisited here. Three carefully placed occurrences of the adjective have so far been uncovered in the passage, but for a full appreciation of its elegance we must note that Aratus has set his readers up to notice a fourth
Art · Elegance · Literature · Ptolemy's table of chords · Pun · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy
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History of Classical Scholarship
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Hidden Signs
Letters in the Sky
The Muse at Play
Das Lateinische Akrostichon
Das Akrostichon in der griechischen Literatur
An Acrostic in Vergil ( Aeneid 7. 601–4)
An Unnoticed Acrostic in Apuleius Metamorphoses and Cicero De Divinatione 2.111–12
Notes on Aratus, Phaenomena
Nicander's Signature
Hands and Scribes
The λεπτóτης of Aratus
Further Hellenistic Acrostics
A Hellenistic Anthology
Ancient Literacies
The Well-Read Muse
Sur un acrostiche d'Aratos (Phén., 783-787)
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |