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Hipparchus’ didactic journey: Poetry, prose, and catalogue form in the Commentary on Aratus and Eudoxus

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Article

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Lightfoot, Jessica 

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Seeking to establish his didactic superiority to prior commentaries on the astronomers, Hipparchus hit upon the catalogue form as expressing his views in the most authoritative way

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Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies

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0017-3916
2159-3159

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57

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Duke University

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