Aries - Revision history

Sushoff: /* Setting (Lib II Cap VI §10) */

2026-02-27T18:47:19Z

Setting (Lib II Cap VI §10)

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	\|		\|Psc 29
	\|		\|Ari 26
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	\|duration		\|duration
	\| colspan="4" \|2 ~~2/3~~ hours = ~~160~~ min = ~~40°~~		\| colspan="4" \|2 hours = 120 min = 30°
	\|}		\|}

Sushoff: /* Rising (Lib II Cap V §10) */

2026-02-27T18:00:18Z

Rising (Lib II Cap V §10)

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	===== Hipparchus =====		===== Hipparchus =====

	====== Rising (Lib II Cap V §10) ======		====== Rising (Lib III Cap III §10) ======
	<blockquote>The Rising of ...</blockquote>		<blockquote>The Rising of ...</blockquote>
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	\|		\|Psc 18 1/2
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	\|		\|Sgr 23 1/2
	\|		\|Cap 14
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	\|star		\|star
	\|		\|the one at the front foot
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	\|-		\|-
	\|duration		\|duration
	\| colspan="4" \|2 1/~~8 hours~~ = ~~127.5~~ min = ~~31 7/8~~ degree		\| colspan="4" \|1 2/5hours = 84 min = 21 degree
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Sushoff: /* Origin of Constellation */

2026-02-26T19:20:57Z

Origin of Constellation

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	===Origin of Constellation===		===Origin of Constellation===
			In ancient times,<ref name=":0">Hoffmann, Susanne M. Wie der Löwe an den Himmel kam. Franckh Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2021</ref> Aries was associated with the first month of the year because the beginning of the year was equated with the awakening of spring and the lambs' leap. In Old and Middle Babylonian, no animal was conceived at this point in the zodiac, but rather a human being: the wage labourer who was now rehired because cattle had to be herded in the pastures and agriculture had to be practised. The Babylonian constellation ‘Wage Labourer’ was associated with the god of shepherds, Dumuzi, the husband of the goddess Inanna/Ishtar.

			How the wage labourer became an aries remains a mystery, for which science has several theories: Of course, it may be that the ram was Greek and that when the Babylonian zodiac was adopted, the foreign labourer was simply replaced by a constellation of their own. However, this is unlikely because all other foreign images were adopted, even if it was difficult to integrate them into their own Greek mythology (see Capricorn).

			It is therefore more likely that the change already took place in Babylon before the zodiac was exported all over the world. Since the mid-20th century, there has been a hypothesis of a Babylonian play on words: the labourer is called LU.ḪUN.GA, whereby the prefix LU only indicates that this is a designation for a human being. Like all scientists, the Babylonians tended to use abbreviations and often wrote only the sign for the first spoken syllable, i.e. ḪUN: this is documented on clay tablets. However, this cuneiform sign is very similar to the sign for UDU, sheep, so it could be a joke or a misunderstanding in translations into Greek or other languages.

			Aratos and Eratosthenes are certain that a ram was sacrificed here. In general, rams were popular sacrificial animals. In addition, Zeus himself is sometimes identified with a ram. The ram in the sky must therefore be a special ram, and that is what the myth is about.

	==== Babylonian ====		==== Babylonian ====
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	==Mythology==		==Mythology==
			<ref name=":0" />Eratosthenes recounts that the ram was an immortal creature given to the children Phrixos and Helle by the sorceress queen Nephele. She had been rejected by her husband and wanted to save her children from their stepmother. So the flying, talking ram with the golden fleece carried the two children away from the royal palace. He dropped the girl, Helle, into the sea, where she was saved by Poseidon. Helle bore Poseidon a son named Paion, and the sea is now named after the princess, Hellespont. The ram carried the boy, Phrixos, across the Black Sea to King Aietes. Then he took off his golden fleece, gave it to the king as a souvenir, and ascended to the stars himself.

			Greek and Roman poets have adapted this story and added more details. They agree that the ram shines only faintly in the sky because its golden fleece remained in Colchis.

			There it was hung in the sacred grove, and when the Greeks wanted it back, it gave rise to the voyage of the Argonauts. Jason, who had to earn his throne, travelled across the sea in the Argo and, after his polite requests were ignored, stole the fleece from the grove. He was helped in this by the king's daughter Medea, whom he subsequently married. They spent their wedding night on the golden fleece of the ram.

	==Weblinks==		==Weblinks==

Sushoff: /* Hipparchus */

2026-02-22T17:32:49Z

Hipparchus

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	===== Hipparchus =====		===== Hipparchus =====

			====== Rising (Lib II Cap V §10) ======
			<blockquote>The Rising of ...</blockquote>
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			!
			! colspan="2" \|east
			! colspan="2" \|south
			\|-
			!
			!lam1
			!lam2
			!lam1
			!lam2
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			\|duration
			\| colspan="4" \|2 1/8 hours = 127.5 min = 31 7/8 degree
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			====== Setting (Lib II Cap VI §10) ======
			{\| class="wikitable"
			!
			! colspan="2" \|west
			! colspan="2" \|south
			\|-
			!
			!lam1
			!lam2
			!lam1
			!lam2
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			\|duration
			\| colspan="4" \|2 2/3 hours = 160 min = 40°
			\|}

			====== Stars Mentioned ======
			{\| class="wikitable"
			\|+
			!
			!Greek
			!German
			!English
			!ident.
			!src
			!
			!lam_culm
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			\|Lib II Cap V §10
			\|rising, east, first
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			\|Lib II Cap V §10
			\|rising, east, last
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			\|Lib II Cap VI §2
			\|setting CrB, south, last
			\|Psc 13.5
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			\|Lib II Cap VI §13
			\|setting Aql, south, first
			\|Ari 2
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			\|Lib III Cap I §9
			\|rising Ori, south, last
			\|Psc 13
			\|}

	===== Hyginus, Astronomica =====		===== Hyginus, Astronomica =====

YoulaAzkarrula: /* Almagest Κριός */

2026-02-06T10:29:10Z

Almagest Κριός

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Sushoff at 13:10, 20 January 2026

2026-01-20T13:10:23Z

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			Authors: {{PAGEAUTHORS}}
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	[[File:Aries (ari).tiff\|alt=star chart\|thumb\|Aries star chart (IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine, Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)]]		[[File:Aries (ari).tiff\|alt=star chart\|thumb\|Aries star chart (IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine, Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)]]
	One of the [[:Category:88_IAU-Constellations\|88 IAU constellations]] is Aries, The Ram.		One of the [[:Category:88_IAU-Constellations\|88 IAU constellations]] is Aries, The Ram.

Sushoff at 07:03, 19 December 2025

2025-12-19T07:03:58Z

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	==== Babylonian ====		==== Babylonian ====
			[[File:Psc+ari+aqr+and.jpg\|thumb\|Dumuzi, the shepherd god, as Hired Man, as lover of Inanna who is depicted in the constellation Anunitu(m); both east of the One Field-constellation (IKU), and north of the Swallow SIM.MAH and the giant, GU.LA, the god Enki/Ea. Drawings by Robert Perdok and Susanne M Hoffmann 2016, mapped in Stellarium.]]
	In the Middle Babylonian (MB) compendium MUL.APIN, no constellation of a ram existed. The constellation in the area of modern Aries was The Hired Man ([[ḪUN.GA2\|<sup>mul lú</sup>ḪUN.GA<sub>2</sub>]] (𒀯𒇽𒂠𒂷) = ''agru'').		In the Middle Babylonian (MB) compendium MUL.APIN, no constellation of a ram existed. The constellation in the area of modern Aries was The Hired Man ([[ḪUN.GA2\|<sup>mul lú</sup>ḪUN.GA<sub>2</sub>]] (𒀯𒇽𒂠𒂷) = ''agru'').

Sushoff at 13:23, 5 September 2025

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	[[Category:Modern]]		[[Category:Modern]]
	[[Category:88 IAU-Constellations]]		[[Category:88 IAU-Constellations]]
			[[Category:Zodiac]]
	[[Category:4work]]		[[Category:4work]]

Sushoff: /* Babylonian */

2025-06-08T10:06:27Z

Babylonian

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	==== Babylonian ====		==== Babylonian ====
	In the Middle Babylonian (MB) compendium MUL.APIN, no constellation of a ram existed. The constellation in the area of modern Aries was The Hired Man ([[ḪUN.GA2\|<sup>mul lú</sup>ḪUN.GA<sub>2</sub>]] (𒀯𒇽𒂠𒂷) = ''agru'').[[File:Kugel Globe Tri.JPG\|thumb\|Kugel Globe: Aries and Triangulum, 1st century BCE (drawing by SMH 2024)]]		In the Middle Babylonian (MB) compendium MUL.APIN, no constellation of a ram existed. The constellation in the area of modern Aries was The Hired Man ([[ḪUN.GA2\|<sup>mul lú</sup>ḪUN.GA<sub>2</sub>]] (𒀯𒇽𒂠𒂷) = ''agru'').

			The Babylonian asterism of The Ewe ([[U8\|U<sub>8</sub>]]) has nothing to do with this constellation; it is in the area of [[Ursa Major]]. [[File:Kugel Globe Tri.JPG\|thumb\|Kugel Globe: Aries and Triangulum, 1st century BCE (drawing by SMH 2024)]]

	==== Greco-Roman ====		==== Greco-Roman ====

Sushoff: /* Almagest Κριός */

2025-06-08T09:46:27Z

Almagest Κριός

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	\|nu Ari		\|nu Ari
	\|-		\|-
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	\|ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς ἐκφύσεως τῆς οὐρᾶς		\|ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς ἐκφύσεως τῆς οὐρᾶς
	\|The star on the place where the tail joins [ the body]		\|The star on the place where the tail joins [ the body]
	\|eps Ari		\|eps Ari
	\|-		\|-
	\|		\|8
	\|τῶν ἐν τῇ οὐρᾷ 7 ὁ προηγούμενος		\|τῶν ἐν τῇ οὐρᾷ 7 ὁ προηγούμενος
	\|The most advanced of the 3 stars in the tail		\|The most advanced of the 3 stars in the tail
	\|del Ari		\|del Ari
	\|-		\|-
	\|		\|9
	\|ὁ μέσος τῶν τριῶν.		\|ὁ μέσος τῶν τριῶν.
	\|The middle one of the three		\|The middle one of the three
	\|zet Ari		\|zet Ari
	\|-		\|-
	\|		\|10
	\|ὁ ἐπόμενος αὐτῶν.		\|ὁ ἐπόμενος αὐτῶν.
	\|The rearmost of them		\|The rearmost of them
	\|tau Ari		\|tau Ari
	\|-		\|-
	\|		\|11
	\|ὁ ἐν τῷ ὀπισθομήρῳ!		\|ὁ ἐν τῷ ὀπισθομήρῳ!
	\|The star in the back of the thigh		\|The star in the back of the thigh
	\|rho Ari		\|rho Ari
	\|-		\|-
	\|		\|12
	\|ὁ ὑπὸ τὴν ἀγκύληη		\|ὁ ὑπὸ τὴν ἀγκύληη
	\|The star under the knee-bend		\|The star under the knee-bend
	\|sig Ari		\|sig Ari
	\|-		\|-
	\|		\|13
	\|ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ ὀπισθίου ἀκρόποδος		\|ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ ὀπισθίου ἀκρόποδος
	\|The star an the hind hoof		\|The star an the hind hoof
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	!		!
	\|-		\|-
	\|		\|14
	\|ὁ ὑπὲρ τὴν κεφαλήν, ὃυ Ἴππαρχος ἐπὶ τοῦ ῥύγχους		\|ὁ ὑπὲρ τὴν κεφαλήν, ὃυ Ἴππαρχος ἐπὶ τοῦ ῥύγχους
	\|The star over the head, which Hipparchus [calls] 'the one on the muzzle'		\|The star over the head, which Hipparchus [calls] 'the one on the muzzle'
	\|alf Ari		\|alf Ari
	\|-		\|-
	\|		\|15
	\|τῶν ὑπὲρ τὴν ὀσφὺν δ ὁ ἐπόμενος καὶ λαμπρότερος.		\|τῶν ὑπὲρ τὴν ὀσφὺν δ ὁ ἐπόμενος καὶ λαμπρότερος.
	\|The 4 stars over the rump: the rearmost,_ which is brighter [than the others]		\|The 4 stars over the rump: the rearmost,_ which is brighter [than the others]
	\|41 Ari		\|41 Ari
	\|-		\|-
	\|		\|16
	\|τῶν λοιπῶν γ’ καὶ ἀμαυροτέρων ὁ βόρειος.		\|τῶν λοιπῶν γ’ καὶ ἀμαυροτέρων ὁ βόρειος.
	\|The 4 stars over the rump: the northernmost of the other 3, fainter stars		\|The 4 stars over the rump: the northernmost of the other 3, fainter stars
	\|39 Ari		\|39 Ari
	\|-		\|-
	\|		\|17
	\|μέσος τῶν τριῶν		\|μέσος τῶν τριῶν
	\|The 4 stars over the rump: the middle one of these three		\|The 4 stars over the rump: the middle one of these three
	\|35 Ari		\|35 Ari
	\|-		\|-
	\|		\|18
	\|ὁ νότιος αὐτῶν.		\|ὁ νότιος αὐτῶν.
	\|The 4 stars over the rump: the southernmost of them		\|The 4 stars over the rump: the southernmost of them