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

Constellation Myths: With Aratus's Phaenomena

Hyginus, Aratus, Robin Hard, Eratosthenes

257 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 t...

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