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Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena
Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena

Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena

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Eratosthenes; Hyginus; Aratus; Robin Hard
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Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens.'

The constellations we recognize today were first mapped by the ancient Greeks, who arranged the stars into patterns for that purpose. In the third century BC Eratosthenes compiled a handbook of astral mythology in which the constellations were associated with figures from legend, and myths were provided to explain how each person, creature, or object came to be placed in the sky. Thus we can see Heracles killing the Dragon, and Perseus slaying the sea-monster to save Andromeda; Orion chases the seven maidens transformed by Zeus into the Pleiades, and Aries, the golden ram, is identified flying up to the heavens. This translation brings together the later summaries from Eratosthenes' lost handbook with a guide to astronomy compiled by Hyginus, librarian to Augustus. Together with Aratus's astronomical poem the Phaenomena, these texts provide a complete collection of Greek astral myths; imaginative and picturesque, they also offer an intriguing insight into ancient science and culture.

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About the author: 

Robin Hard has translated Apollodorus' Library of Greek Mythology, Diogenes' Sayings and Anecdotes, Marcus Aurelius Meditations, and Epictetus Discourses, Fragments, Handbook for Oxford World's Classics. He is the author of the Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology (2004).

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ISBN : 9780198716983

Author: 
Eratosthenes; Hyginus; Aratus; Robin Hard
Pages
256 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
128 x 199 mm
Pub date
May 2015
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena

Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena

Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena