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Topic: Catasterismi

	Catasterismi Information
		Catasterismi (Greek Katasterismoi, "placings among the stars") is an Alexandrian prose retelling of the mythic origins of stars and constellations, as they were interpreted in Hellenistic culture.
		Many of the mythic themes in Catasterismi are simply drawn from Aratus, Phaenomena (ca 275 BCE) and the sequential arrangement is essentially that of Aratus as well.
		During the Renaissance, printing of Catasterismi, invariably attributed to Eratosthenes, began early, but the work was always overshadowed by Hyginus, illustrated by woodcuts in the first illustrated edition by Erhard Ratdolt, Venice 1482.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Catasterismi (521 words)

	Catasterismi
		The work survives in an epitome assembled at the end of the 1st century AD, based on a lost original, with a possible relation to work of Eratosthenes that is now hard to pinpoint.
		Chapters 1–42 of Catasterismi treat forty-three of the forty-eight constellations known to Ptolemy (second cent.
		Many of the mythic themes in Catasterismi are simply drawn from Aratus, Phaenomena (ca 275 BC) and the sequential arrangement is essentially that of Aratus as well.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Catasterismi.html (544 words)

	Eratosthenes - Crystalinks
		In 195 BC he became blind and a year later he starved himself to death.
		The fragmentary collection of Hellenistic sky-myths called Catasterismi (Katasterismoi) was given an attribution to Eratosthenes, a name to conjure with, to add to its credibility.
		An armillary sphere (also known as a spherical astrolabe, armilla, or armil) is a model of the celestial sphere, invented by Eratosthenes in 255 BC.
	www.crystalinks.com /eratosthenes.html (864 words)

	Eratosthenes
		His Erigone, of which a few fragments are also preserved, is sometimes spoken of as a separate poem, but it may have belonged to the Hermes, which appears also to have been known by other names such as Catalogi.
		The still extant Catasterismi, containing the story of certain stars in prose, is probably not by Eratosthenes.
		Eratosthenes was the founder of scientific chronology; he endeavored to fix the dates of the chief literary and political events from the conquest of Troy.
	www.nndb.com /people/712/000095427 (511 words)

	Catasterismi - The Mind-N-Magick Paganpedia
		The work survives in an epitome assembled at the end of the 1st century CE, based on a lost original, with a possible relation to work of Eratosthenes that is now hard to pinpoint.
		Bradley E. Schaefer, "The epoch of the constellations on the Farnese Hercules and their origins in Hipparchus's lost catalogue"
		The only available English translation, reviewed by Roger Ceragioli in Journal for the History of Astronomy, 30.1 (1999) pp 313–315; by John McMahon in Archaeoastronomy: The Journal of Astronomy in Culture, XVI (2001) pp 98-99 [1] and by John T. Ramsey, as "Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.6.28" [2].
	mind-n-magick.com /wiki/index.php?title=Catasterismi (498 words)

	Capricorn - Astrology - Capricornus
		Capricorn is associated with the Greek myth of the goat Amalthea who provided the infant Zeus with milk.
		Zeus placed her in the sky to honor her (Catasterismi).
		Capricorn is also associated with the Greco-Roman god Cronus/Saturn and also sometimes the god Aristaeus.
	www.spelwerx.com /capricorn.html (1348 words)

	White Dragon Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was a most enjoyableway of learning Greek mythology even if I did not think to wonder at the time where these stories came from.
		This book provides the answers in the form of translations of the relevant sections of two key works, the 1st or 2nd century CE Catasterismi of Pseudo-Eratosthenes and the 1st century BCE Poeticon Astonomicon or De Astronomia attributed to Hyginus.
		It's a delightfully simple idea and one which is, as far as I know, unique at the present time.
	www.whitedragon.org.uk /reviews/starmyth.php (221 words)

	Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans: A Sourcebook Containing the Constellations of Pseudo-Eratoshenes and the Poetic ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This book serves very well as a translation and commentary for the Catasterismi of Pseudo-Eratosthenes and the Poeticon Astronomicon of Hyginus.
		Theony Condos, the translator, draws mostly on two prime sources; Poeticon Astronomicon (Poetic Astronomy), attributed to Hyginus; and Catasterismi (The Constellations), by Eratothenes.
		In the introduction, Condos discusses the backgrounds of Hyginus and Eratothenes, their influences and sources, and some supporting and relating works by their contemporaries and historical peers.
	greek-myth.com /bs/shop/product.aspx?asin=1890482935 (625 words)

	Constellation Boötes
		To prevent Arkas from killing his mother (which he did not recognize), Zeus took both an made them neighbouring constellations.
		Eratosthenes of Cyrene (230 B.C.) tells the story in his Catasterismi (8) a little bit different: Arkas has been the son of Lykaon, who sacrificed him and gave him Zeus with the meal in order to test, if the god is really allknowing.
		Zeus, of course, knew immediately the truth and punished the cruel father.
	www.seds.org /Maps/Stars_en/Fig/bootes.html (670 words)

	Archaeoastronomy Review: Condos Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans
		Syracuse, NY In Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans: A Sourcebook Theony Condos (hereafter C.) brings together in translation two important astronomically inspired mythological texts from the Greco-Roman world.
		The first is the Constellations of Pseudo-Eratosthenes, a first or second century C.E. epitome of the astronomer Eratosthenes' third century B.C.E lost prose work, the Catasterismi, on the origins of the constellations.
		The other is the De astronomia attributed to Hyginus (first century B.C.E.), somewhat misleadingly called here the Poetic Astronomy, from the title of Ratdolt's 1482 edition.
	web.lemoyne.edu /~mcmahon/AACONDOS.html (1011 words)

	"Heroes" 1997
		She takes a fancy to the baby and breast-feeds it, but the baby bites her.
		The cosmic explosion of milk results in galaxy (Greek galakt- means 'milk')--or the Milky Way {Hyginus Astronomica 2.43; Eratosthenes Catasterismi 44; "Achilles" introduction to Aratus 24.}.
		Herakles' mortal mother, Alkmene, conceives another son by her mortal husband, Amphitryon, on the same night that she conceives her son Herakles by her immortal paramour, Zeus.
	cyber.law.harvard.edu /heroes/notes1.html (5591 words)

	Articles - Lernaean Hydra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In an alternative version, Hera's crab was at the site to bite his feet and bother him, hoping to cause his death.
		Hera set it in the Zodiac to follow the Lion (Eratosthenes, Catasterismi)
		When Eurystheus, the agent of ancient Hera who was assigning to Heracles The Twelve Labours, found out that it was Heracles' nephew who had handed him the firebrand, he declared that the labour had not been completed alone and as a result did not count towards the ten labours set for him.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Lernaean_Hydra?mySession=49660dd45ada951397214055be79a558 (835 words)

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