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Chapter | Non-Eratosthenic Astral Myths in the Catasterisms
Non-Eratosthenic Astral Myths in the Catasterisms
- Jordi Pàmias - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Espanya - email
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.
Submitted: Jan. 13, 2017 | Accepted: March 31, 2017 | Published Sept. 1, 2017 | Language: en
Keywords Eratosthenes • Castasterism • Pythagoreanism • Astral Mythology
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- Sept. 1, 2017
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- Anne Weddigen
- Sept. 1, 2017
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- Sept. 1, 2017
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De signis coeli and De ordine ac positione stellarum in signis
Two Star Catalogues from the Carolingian Age - Anna Santoni
- Tubi astronomici
- Francesco Bertola
- Sept. 1, 2017
- Exploring the Relevance of the Star-positions in the Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts of Hyginus’ De Astronomia
- Arnaud Zucker
- Sept. 1, 2017
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- Kristen Lippincott
- Sept. 1, 2017
- On Aldus’ Scriptores astronomici (1499)
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- Sept. 1, 2017
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ECF_chapter_1133 |
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dc.contributor.author |
Pàmias Jordi |
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dc.title |
Non-Eratosthenic Astral Myths in the Catasterisms |
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dc.type |
Chapter |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.description.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. |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Antiquity Studies |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Filologia e letteratura |
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dc.publisher |
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing |
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dc.issued |
2017-09-01 |
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dc.dateAccepted |
2017-03-31 |
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dc.dateSubmitted |
2017-01-13 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-7543-440-3/non-eratosthenic-astral-myths-in-the-catasterisms/ |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.14277/6969-165-2/ANT-13-3 |
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2610-8828 |
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2610-9344 |
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dc.identifier.isbn |
978-88-7543-440-3 |
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dc.identifier.eisbn |
978-88-6969-165-2 |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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with fulltext |
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open |
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yes |
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dc.subject |
Astral Mythology |
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dc.subject |
Astral Mythology |
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dc.subject |
Castasterism |
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dc.subject |
Castasterism |
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dc.subject |
Eratosthenes |
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dc.subject |
Eratosthenes |
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dc.subject |
Pythagoreanism |
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dc.subject |
Pythagoreanism |
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