Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena by Eratosthenes, Hyginus, Aratus

Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena

Eratosthenes, Hyginus, Aratus

256 pages first pub -194 (editions)

nonfiction classics history adventurous informative fast-paced
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"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...

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