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Cronin, Patrick

Patrick Cronin was Lecturer in Classics at University College Cork, 1967 – 2002 and Director of The Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies at Athens, 1997 - 2002. He earned his Ph.D. from The National University of Ireland.

Greek Popular Meteorology From Antiquity to the Present: The Folk-Interpretation of Celestial Signs
2010 0-7734-3657-X
This book, the only one of its kind in the English language, examines the attempts of the Greeks to predict weather change by means of naked-eye observation of celestial phenomena, unaided by scientific meteorology.