Mythology · Greece

The Greek Mythological Origins of Constellations

Most of the 48 classical constellations we still use today originate from Greek mythology, codified by Ptolemy around 150 AD. The sky was a mythological stage — Orion the hunter, Cassiopeia the queen, Perseus the hero — each frozen in etern

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