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grbs-15923	Lightfoot, Jessica	Hipparchus’ Didactic Journey: Poetry, Prose, and Catalogue Form in the Commentary on Aratus and Eudoxus	2017	33	.pdf	application/pdf	12252	396	50	Unlike a modern lem- matized commentary, Hipparchus’ work takes the form of a continuous prose treatise, which allows him to guide the reader expertly through the astronomical terrain of the past and towards his own astronomical discoveries.13 In Book 1 of the Commentary Hipparchus focusses extensively on pointing out the mistakes of his astronomical predecessors in verse and prose, Aratus and Eudoxus. However, the dense scholarly tradition which quickly ac- crued around Aratus’ poem complicates Hipparchus’ attempts to stake his own claim as the most accurate and truthful astronomical authority available to the contemporary reader.	cache/grbs-15923.pdf	txt/grbs-15923.txt