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Pseudo-Eratosthenes
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'''Pseudo-Eratosthenes''' or ('''Ps.-Eratosthenes''') is the name commonly given to the author of the ''Katasterismoi'' ('Catasterims' or 'Constellations') dated to 1st or 2nd century
CE.
The work is a purported summary of an earlier work of the same name attributed to the true
Eratosthenes but possibly falsely. Chapters 1–42 gives the mythology of 42 separate constellations or star goups including the
Pleiades (star cluster) Pleiades and chapters 43–44 covers the five
planets and the
Milky Way. The work cites in some places the lost ''Astronomia'' attributed to
Hesiod.
A modern translation is available in ''Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans: A Sourcebook'' by Theony Condos (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Phanes Press, 1997) ISBN 1890482927 (hb); ISBN 1890482935 (pb). This translation has been criticized both as translation and for using an unreliable edition of the text.
