The Phainomena, or 'Heavenly displays' of Aratus, done into Engl. verse by R. Brown |
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Akkadian Altar Amaltheia ancient Andromedê Aratos Aratus archaic Archer astronomical Bear beneath Bird Boötes BROWN Bull called Centaur Charioteer Cicero circle Claws connexion constellation constellation-figures Crab Crown dark Delambre Dionysiak Myth Dionysos earth Eridanus Eudoxos Euripidês Farnese Globe Fasti Fish G. C. Lewis Goat hand head heaven HEAVENLY DISPLAY Hellenic Hermês Hesiod Hipparchos Homeric Horse Hyades Hyginus Ibid Indian form Istar Kassiepeia Kêpheus Kneeler Kosmic Order Law of Kosmic Manilius Medousa Micyllus Monster Moon mythological neath night o'er original Orion Ovid Pausanias Perseus Phainomena Planets poem poet Poeticon Astronomicon Ptolemy reduplication revolve rise River and Constellation Schol Scorpion Sea-monster serpents shoulders Sir G. W. Snake-holder solar stars shown stellar tail Unicorn vide Fig vide G. D. M. vide L. K. O. vide sup Water-snake whilst xviii Zeus zodiacal δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τῆς τοῦ
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Seite 37 - Or tell or learn the separate name of all : Since everywhere are many, size and tint Of multitudes the same, but all are drawn around. So thought he good to make the stellar groups, That each by other lying orderly, They might display their forms. And thus the stars At once took names, and rise familiar now.
Seite 98 - We can thoroughly recommend his interesting book to those who care to study :1 curious chapter in primitive astronomy.' — NATURE. ' The author of " The Great Dionysiak Myth " is a laborious student. It seems but yesterday that we noticed his pamphlet on the unicorn, and now we have another book which must have taken, one would suppose, years of study to bring it to its present state of perfection To us moderns, however ignorant we may be, the idea of time is regulated by a multitude of events of...
Seite 12 - K1nder they call him. Labouring on his knees, Like one who sinks he seems; from both his shoulders His arms are raised ; each stretching on its side About a full arm's length. And his right foot Is planted on the twisting Serpent's head.
Seite 38 - Lacedsemon on the sun-dials there, as Pharorinus says in his Universal History, and they showed the solstices and the equinoxes; he also made clocks. He was the first person, too, who drew a map of the earth and sea, and he also made a globe...
Seite 97 - During the twelve years which have passed since the publication of the first edition, a large amount of solid work has been done within the domain of comparative mythology. Of the results so gained, probably the most important is the clearer light thrown on the influence of Semitic theology on the theology and religion of the Greeks. This momentous question I have striven to treat impartially ; and for my treatment of it I have to acknowledge my obligations to Mr.
Seite 12 - BC, were already puzzled to account for this "reversed" position of "the Kneeler." Aratos, from whom I have quoted above, thus further wonders as to this constellation. At line 63 we read : — " . . . . like a toiling man, revolves A form. Of it can no one clearly speak, Nor to what toil he is attached ; but, simply, Kneeler they call him. Labouring on his knees, Like one who sinks he seems ; " and again at line 614 — " The Knuler He who is ne'er far distant from the Lyre, Whoe'er this stranger...
Seite 39 - Discourse began between the two, and Aristagoras addressed the Spartan king in these words following : —
Seite 44 - Idcirco certis dimensum partibus orbem per duodena regit mundi sol aureus astra. quinque tenent caelum zonae: quarum una corusco semper sole rubens et torrida semper ab igni...
Seite 98 - ... signs being diurnal or relating to the deities of day, and the other half being nocturnal, concerned with myths of the night. Early man thus recognised that there was one and the same law of " Kosmic Order" pervading all conceptions of time. In the course of his investigation Mr. Brown draws upon Egyptian and Iranian sources, but his chief materials are necessarily derived from the monuments of ancient Babylonia. Unfortunately the progressive nature of Assyrian study often renders what was written...
Seite 63 - It is impossible not to recognise, from the configuration of this constellation as now seen, that the ancients looked on the stars which form the Lesser Bear as forming a wing of Draco.