APOTELESMATICA 2. (1) 14–140: SOURCES AND MODELS*

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constant reference to its updated commentaries, and also with the
help of a globe which he in fact seems describing, perhaps a globe
similar to that of Manilius. From this point of view his work is
comparable to that of Aratus for a further reason: the author of the
Apotelesmatica imitates the poet of the Phaenomena in that he also
treats his model, Aratus, in a critical way, as Aratus too was not
absolutely faithful in his rendering of Eudoxus, but had occasionally
deviated from his model following his own observations and
research. Pseudo-Manetho is thus continuing the practice of a critical
and imaginative dialogue on both literary and scientific
grounds his Hellenistic predecessor introduced and aspires to a
poetic composition based on the astronomical knowledge of his
era which has, at the same time, strong roots in the didactic genre
and in the epic tradition more generally.
Leukosia Maria Ypsilanti