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Ovid Met.

Albrecth Dürer, 1515, woodcut for star map, British Museum

A detailed 16th-century celestial map illustrating constellations as mythological figures and animals, with astronomers

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.