Non-Eratosthenic Astral Myths in the Catasterisms
abstract
Two astral myths are studied in order to show that a catasterismic tradition ran parallel to the Eratosthenic one in Antiquity. Eratosthenes absorbed these interpretations into his mythographical handbook by cancelling those elements that contained a religious or a philosophical significance.
Keywords: Pythagoreanism • Eratosthenes • Castasterism • Astral Mythology
permalink: http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-165-2/ANT-13-3