Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena - Paperback
by Eratosthenes, Hyginus, Aratus
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Availability:In StockContributor:Eratosthenes, Hyginus, AratusSeries:Oxford World's ClassicsPublish date:2015-08-01Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press, USAISBN-13:9780198716983ISBN-10:198716982UPC:9780198716983Book Category:Literary Collections, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Folklore & MythologySize:7.83 x 4.86 x 0.35 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCWMQVEK13
Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena
"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...
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press, USAISBN-13:9780198716983ISBN-10:198716982UPC:9780198716983Book Category:Literary Collections, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Folklore & MythologySize:7.83 x 4.86 x 0.35 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCWMQVEK13
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).
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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