Abstract
The dating and analysis of the “Phaenomena” of Aratus are described, and a determination of the primary source of these poems is made. The astronomical dating of the material of Aratus’ poem leads to the conclusion that its primary source might have been very ancient indeed (the early 2nd millennium BC), though this contradicts what we know about the history of the poem’s creation, as well as the highly developed astronomical notions it contains. The present article is devoted to an analysis of the time the primary source of the “Phaenomena” was created. Made use of in it is the detailed method of Archie E. Roy (Roy, 1984), and it advances a hypothesis on the origin of the primary source and the possible ways of its penetration into Hellenic culture.
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