Latin Day 2002

Resources:

• For the full text of Hyginus' Fabulae in Latin see
  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6946/literature/hyginus.html
• A course webpage assembled by Wilfred Major (University of Loyola at New Orleans) contains English translations of the Fabulae. Go to
  http://www.loyno.edu/~wemajor/coursestuff/clhuu146syls01.html
• For the Latin text of all four books of the Astronomicon (also called de Astrologia) see
  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6946/literature/astronomia.html
• For a translation of Books 2 and 3 of Hyginus' Astronomicon, with commentary see Theony Condos, Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans: A Sourcebook (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Phanes Press, 1997). More information and a sample chapter available at
  http://www.cosmopolis.com/star-myths/delphinus.html
• For a web page devoted to celestial cartography, lavishly illustrated with woodcuts from the editio princeps (first printed edition) of the Astronomicon [Venice: Erhard Ratdolt,1482]) go to
  http://www.cosmopolis.com/star-myths/delphinus.html
• An index of cartographic images illustrating ancient maps is avaialable at:
  http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/Ancient%20Web%20Pages/AncientL.html
• Other helpful sites and bibliography:
  • The Myths of Hyginus, translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies, no. 34. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960.
  • Myths of the Zodiac, by Hugh Lloyd-Jones. London: Duckworth, 1978.
  • The Glorious Constellations: History and Mythology, by Giuseppe Maria Sesti. New York: Abrams, 1991.
  • Ancient Astrology, by Tamsyn Barton. London: Routledge, 1994.
  • Mythology of the Zodiac: Tales of the Constellations, by Marianne McDonald. New York: Friedman/Fairfax, 2000. (Lavishly illustrated coffee table book, which contains names of famous people‹including classical scholars!‹born under each sign.)
  • The Ambrose Collection contains many slides illustrating myths from Ovid, including star myths like the katasterism of Caesar. The URL is:
    http://www.uvm.edu/~classics/ambrose.html
  • Fabulae Astrorum, by Susan Brown (Thetford Academy). This book manuscript contains brief summaries in English of various star myths including and in addition to the signs of the Zodiac and provides many other Latin texts besides Hyginus. If anyone is interested in consulting this resource (a bound photocopy is available for $15), please contact Mark Usher or Susan Brown herself.