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Catasterisms (Placings among the Stars)

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Known · Probablein Alexandria?Conjecturedvery likely class

◇ Doubted: the attribution is disputed; the attribution is uncertain. What survives is a later epitome; how much goes back to Eratosthenes is debated.

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I · The entry, in his form

In the table of Mathematics (incl. astronomy)

Conjecturedvery likely class

Attributed to Eratosthenes

c. 276–194 BCE. The Suda says Ptolemy III summoned him from Athens. P.Oxy.

Catasterisms

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Opening words not preserved.

Length: not counted

◇ Doubted: the attribution is disputed; the attribution is uncertain. What survives is a later epitome; how much goes back to Eratosthenes is debated.

Above, his entry form, filled from what we know. Below, ours.

II · Does it survive? Where to read it

Survives in large part

Was it in Alexandria?

Known · Probable

Written in Alexandria.

In the cupboard: written at Alexandria by a scholar or court writer a source places there.

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IV · Sources and the living entry

Ancient references (2)
  • Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Catasterismi (the epitome)
  • Hyginus, De astronomia 2
Modern scholarship (2)
  • R. Hard, Eratosthenes and Hyginus: Constellation Myths, with Aratus's Phaenomena (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
  • K. Geus, Eratosthenes von Kyrene: Studien zur hellenistischen Kultur- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Munich: C. H. Beck, 2002)

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