Arcturus
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Apollodorus Against Polycles
A celestial seasonal marker used to date the grain convoy.
while I secured another pentecontarch and put out to sea to convoy the grain, and I stayed there forty-five days, until the vessels sailed out from Pontus after the rising of Arcturus.
Works and Days
A star whose rising after the solstice and visibility at dawn serve as calendrical markers for the coming of spring and the timing of the grape harvest.
When Zeus has finished sixty wintry days after the solstice, then the star Arcturus leaves the holy stream of Ocean and first rises brilliant at dusk.
But when Orion and Sirius are come into midheaven, and rosy-fingered Dawn sees Arcturus, then cut off all the grape-clusters, Perses, and bring them home.