- The
Catasterismi or
Catasterisms (Gr**** Καταστερισμοί Katasterismoi, "Constellations" or "Placings
Among the Stars") is a lost work by
Eratosthenes of...
-
honoured with
transformation into a constellation. On the day of his
catasterism, when Zeus
transformed him into a constellation, a
single feather fell...
-
Pleiades is the
story of how
these sisters literally became stars,
their catasterism.
According to some
versions of the tale, all
seven sisters killed themselves...
-
Heracles received the help of his
nephew to
carry it to completion. A
catasterism is the
account of the
transformation of a
character in Gr**** mythology...
- nor any
ritual or
inscription to join the two.
Hyginus describes this
catasterism in the
Poetic Astronomy, in
speaking of Auriga, the Charioteer: Parmeniscus...
-
waters in mourning.
Juturna is
further ****enized by Juno’s
conferral of
catasterism (Aen. 12.143, 145), an act that
links her with the Dioscuri.
These divinities...
- myth, the
Cyclopes were the
builders of the
first altar. The myth was a
catasterism,
which explained how the
constellation the
Altar (Ara) came to be in...
-
constellation Ursa
Major (the
Great Bear),
which was
thought to
represent the
catasterism of
Callisto who was
transformed into a bear and
placed by Zeus among...
- of Minotaur) in Servius'
commentaries on Aeneid. Pseudo-Eratosthenes,
Catasterisms 18 Hyginus, De
Astronomica 2.18 Smith, "Melanippe" 1.
Antoninus Liberalis...
- A
scholion to the
Iliad mentions the
Pleiades escape from
Orion by
catasterism and says the
following about Electra: They say that Electra,
being unwilling...
