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Constellation Myths: with Aratus's Phaenomena (Oxford World's Classics)
Constellation Myths with Aratus's Phaenomena - Oxford World's Classics
Author: Eratosthenes, Hyginus, Aratus
"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 constellati...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198716983
ISBN-10: 0198716982
Publication Date: 8/1/2015
Pages: 256
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