Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena

by 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 constellations were associated with figures from legend, and myths were provided to explain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198716982
• ISBN13: 9780198716983
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 7.8"