Constellation Myths : with Aratus's 'Phaenomena' /

Constellation Myths : with Aratus's 'Phaenomena' /

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Author / Creator:	Eratosthenes, author.
Uniform title:	Catasterismi. English.
Imprint:	Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Description:	xlii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Subject:	Constellations -- Early works to 1800. Constellations -- Names -- Early works to 1800. Mythology, Greek -- Early works to 1800. Constellations. Constellations -- Names. Mythology, Greek. Early works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10391594

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Other authors / contributors:	Hyginus, C. Julius, author. Hard, Robin, writer of added text, translator.
ISBN:	9780198716983 0198716982
Notes:	"First published as an Oxford world's classics paperback, 2015."--Verso of title page. Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-200) and index.
Summary:	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. - Amazon

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Call Number:	QB802.E7313 2015
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