Prose retelling of the mythic origins of stars and constellations
The Catasterismi or Catasterisms (Greek Καταστερισμοί Katasterismoi, "Constellations" or "Placings Among the Stars"[1]) is a lost work by Eratosthenes of Cyrene. It was a comprehensive compendium of astral mythology including origin myths of the stars and constellations. Only a summary of the original work survives, called the Epitome Catasterismorum, by an unknown author sometimes referred to as pseudo-Eratosthenes.[2]
^'Καταστερισμός' etymology
^Hard, pp. i, xviii–xx, xxiii, xxiv, xxxvii; Decker, pp. 2–3; Kanas, p. 109.
The Catasterismi or Catasterisms (Greek Καταστερισμοί Katasterismoi, "Constellations" or "Placings Among the Stars") is a lost work by Eratosthenes of...
Leda then raised Helen as her own. According to Eratosthenes in his Catasterismi, this version was presented by Cratinus. Nemesis enacted divine retribution...
131–2; Frazer, p. 120; Musaeus fr. 8 Diels, pp. 181–2 [= Eratosthenes, Catasterismi 13 (Hard 2015, p. 44; Olivieri, p. 17)]; Musaeus apud Hyginus, De Astronomica...
connected with the constellations, in versions that are chiefly based on Catasterismi, a work that was traditionally attributed to Eratosthenes. Like the Fabulae...
p. 564; Gantz, p. 272; Hesiod fr. 7 Diels, p. 196 [= Eratosthenes, Catasterismi 32 (Hard 2015, p. 101; Olivieri, pp. 37–8)]; cf. Hyginus, De Astronomica...
Theon of Alexandria Theon of Smyrna Timocharis Works Almagest (Ptolemy) Catasterismi (Eratosthenes) On Sizes and Distances (Hipparchus) On the Sizes and Distances...
this mythology, Perseus is the ancestor of the Persians. See article Catasterismi. Laodice may be the daughter of Agamemnon mentioned by Homer, who is...
Aeschylus (?), Prometheus Bound 790–800; Aeschylus fr. 262 [= Eratosthenes, Catasterismi 22 (Hard 2015, p. 16)]. For lake Tritonis, and the Gorgons being located...
1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Catasterismi 14, 19 Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated...
addiction to luxury; lost; quoted by Athenaeus in the Deipnosophistae) The Catasterismi (Katasterismoi), a lost collection of Hellenistic myths about the constellations...
attributed, not to Apollodorus of Athens, but to "pseudo-Apollodorus" and the Catasterismi, recounting the translations of mythic figure into asterisms and constellations...
Theon of Alexandria Theon of Smyrna Timocharis Works Almagest (Ptolemy) Catasterismi (Eratosthenes) On Sizes and Distances (Hipparchus) On the Sizes and Distances...
283. Fragment of Hesiod's Astronomy quoted in Pseudo-Eratosthenes' Catasterismi; Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke 1.25. Lucian of Samosata, de Domo 28...
doves (scholia to Germanicus's Aratus; Hyginus, Fabulae). The author of Catasterismi explained the constellation of Piscis Austrinus as the parent of the...
such constellation is known). Instead, the mythographic tradition of Catasterismi makes Cynosura the name of an Oread nymph described as a nurse of Zeus...
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