Orion
object · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Orion the figure
Argo, the Altar, the Crown · Lucifer · fixed stars · sphere of the fixed stars · strong Orion · the Dog-star · the Goat, the Scorpion, the Bull, the Lion · the fixed stars · the wanderers
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
The stars, planets, and constellations that the Stoics count as gods, including named constellations such as the Goat, Scorpion, Bull, Lion, Argo, Altar, and Crown
therefore also the fixed stars.
for you reckon the single stars to be gods, and call them either by the name of beasts — as the Goat, the Scorpion, the Bull, the Lion — or of lifeless things, as Argo, the Altar, the Crown.
but that other thing is not only not the part of an arrogant man, but rather of a prudent one — to understand that he has sensation and reason, and that Orion and the Dog-star have not these same things.
Works and Days
A constellation whose rising and setting are used throughout the farming calendar as markers for winnowing grain, harvesting grapes, and ploughing.
Set your slaves to winnow Demeter's holy grain, when strong Orion first appears, on a smooth threshing-floor in an airy place.
But when Orion and Sirius are come into midheaven, and rosy-fingered Dawn sees Arcturus, then cut off all the grape-clusters, Perses, and bring them home.