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Definition of Catasterisms

Catasterism
Catasterism Ca*tas"ter*ism, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to place among the stars.] A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. The catasterisms of Eratosthenes. --Whewell.

Meaning of Catasterisms from wikipedia

- The Catasterismi or Catasterisms (Gr**** Καταστερισμοί Katasterismoi, "Constellations" or "Placings Among the Stars") is a lost work by Eratosthenes of...
- constellation Pegasus originally called the Horse. Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Catasterisms 18; Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.18; Smith, "Melanippe" 1. Kuhn, on Julius...
- honoured with transformation into a constellation. On the day of his catasterism, when Zeus transformed him into a constellation, a single feather fell...
- 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...
- of Minotaur) in Servius' commentaries on Aeneid. Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Catasterisms 18 Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.18 Smith, "Melanippe" 1. Antoninus Liberalis...
- them to the monsters Hydra and Carcinos. In De Astronomica, a work on catasterisms traditionally attributed to Hyginus (1st century BC), the myth is also...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...