Eratosthenes and Hyginus: Constellations Myths (with Aratus's Phaenomena)

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Eratosthenes and Hyginus: Constellations Myths (with Aratus's Phaenomena)Oxford World's Classics 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

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