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  1. Life and works

    Hyginus may have originated either from Spain, or from the Egyptian city of Alexandria. He was elected superintendent of the Palatine library by Augustus according to Suetonius' De Grammaticis, 20.
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    Attributed works

    Two Latin works which have survived under the name of Hyginus are a mythological handbook, known as the Genealogiae or the Fabulae, and an astronomical work, entitled De astronomia. Though there a handful of s… See more

    Legacy

    The lunar crater Hyginus and the minor planet 12155 Hyginus are named after him.
    The English author Sir Thomas Browne opens his discourse The Garden of Cyrus (1658) with a Creation myth sourced from the Fabula… See more

    Further reading

    • Smith, R. Scott, and Stephen M. Trzaskoma, Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology, Indianapolis and Cambridge, Hackett Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978087220… See more

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