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This seminar will explore the tradition of mapping the night sky that, for the Greeks, had its roots in the poems of Homer and (more especially) Hesiod, and was definitively shaped by Eudoxus in two prose works (Phaenomena and Enoptron). Eudoxus’ work was versified by Aratus (Phaenomena), a poem that was subsequently translated into several Latin versions (e.g. by Cicero, Germanicus), and accompanied a rich visual repertoire. Key points for discussion will include the politics and poetics of mapping the night sky, intersections between mythical/scientific/philosophical traditions, the didactic voice, and translation between Greek, Latin; prose, verse; text and image.