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  • Constellation Myths

    with Aratus's Phaenomena

    by Eratosthenes, Hyginus, Aratus ...
    Translated by Robin Hard ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    '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 ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • The Iliad & The Odyssey

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    Series series Unexpurgated Start Publishing LLC
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  • From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe

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    Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth

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