[PDF.41ch] Constellation Myths: with Aratus's Phaenomena (Oxford World's Classics)

Constellation Myths: with Aratus's Phaenomena (Oxford World's Classics)

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 | #604567 in Books |  imusti |  2015-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.00 x.70 x7.60l,.0 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

 | Oxford University Press USA

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent translation and commentary|By Cliente |My chief motivation for purchasing this book was that it provided a prose translation of Aratus' Phaenomena, a book that is very influential in the history of astronomical culture and was a best seller in Antiquity; it was quoted in the Bible and the Greek Anthology. It's surprisingly hard to find faithful translations of it; man| |A useful, inexpensive, and comprehensive vade-mecum of the mythology that surrounds the constellations * Colin Leach, Classics for All * Highly recommended. * Anna Maria Polidori, Al Femminile *|About the Author||R

"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, creatu...

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