Constellation Myths
with Aratus's Phaenomena
$32.65
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2015
Summary
‘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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198716983 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0198716982 |
| Author: | Eratosthenes, Hyginus, Aratus, Robin Hard |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2015 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 128mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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a useful, inexpensive, and comprehensive vade-mecum of the mythology that surrounds the constellations
Highly recommended. * Anna Maria Polidori, Al Femminile *
A useful, inexpensive, and comprehensive vade-mecum of the mythology that surrounds the constellations * Colin Leach, Classics for All *
About The Author
Eratosthenes
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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