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‘Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens.’ The constellations we recognize today were first mapped by the ancient Greeks, who arran …

‘Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens.’ The constellations we recognize today were first mapped by the ancient Greeks, who arran …

After the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Phaenomena was the most widely read poem in the ancient world. Its fame was immediate. It was translated into Latin by Ovid and Cicero and quoted by St. Paul in t …