Eratóstenes : constelações do zodíaco / Reina Marisol Pereira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pereira, Reina Marisol, author.

Series:

Série Autores Gregos e Latinos.

Série Autores Gregos e Latinos

Language:

Portuguese

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Coimbra University Press 2020

Portugal : Coimbra University Press, 2020

Language Note:

Portuguese

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This text by (Ps.)Eratosthenes translated in this publication portrays a group of episodes not limited to 12 constellations. Nor does it discuss deterministic influences / constraints on daily, monthly, or annual contingencies and behaviours of the earthly creatures of the Alexandrian Era. Although it is not an astronomical treatise and the style has a simple and succinct character, much remains to be decoded in just over forty episodes. Of astronomical connotations, it presents itself as an approximation exercise, providing the receiver with explanations of something visible but not attainable - the constellations, through images of common knowledge, rooted in scenes and mythological aspects. In addition, the topoi are vast, such as philia, betrayal, anger, justice, crime and punishment, reverence, eponymia, etiology, metamorphosis, mythology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

989-26-1948-X