Cleostratus

Historical research into this has shown translation issues and coincidences including the Tenedos connection with the Philosopher Thales.

[3] Historical writings also refer to Cleostratus as a means of establishing a tradition of authority of Greek accomplishments.

Pliny the Elder in his Natural History mentioned the zodiacal circle and commented: "Anaximander the Milesian, in the 58th Olympiad, is said to have been the first who understood its obliquity, and thus opened the road to a correct knowledge of the subject.

Afterwards Cleostratus made the signs in it, first marking those of Aries and Sagittarius; Atlas had formed the sphere long before this time.

Censorinus (De Die Natali, c. 18) considers Cleostratus to have been the inventor of the octaeteris, or cycle of eight years.