Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena

"Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very...
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Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena by Eratosthenes

Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena

¥3,708

Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena

¥3,708
Author: Eratosthenes
Format: Paperback
Language: English
"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's 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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Author: Eratosthenes, Hyginus, Aratus
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/01/2015
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 7.83h x 4.86w x 0.35d
ISBN: 9780198716983

About the Author

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

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