EAN: 9780762488513

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

A retelling of the classic myths and timeless tales by bestselling author Annette Giesecke that underlie the 88 named constellations in the night sky--from Andromeda to Orion to Ursa Major. Classical Mythology of the Constellations  is a stargazer' s guide to the wondrous stories of the gods heroes and monsters that populate the night sky. As long as humans have lived on Earth they have gazed up at the starry sky with fascination and longing. For the ancient Greeks and Romans the Sun Moon and Earth were gods.  The stars beyond our Solar System however represented heroes animals and monsters that the gods placed in the sky after their death. These include the great hunter Orion and the scorpion who killed him with its sting the beautiful maiden Callisto who was turned into a bear (Ursa Major) by the goddess Hera Perseus the slayer of Medusa and many more. In this beautifully designed work stunningly illustrated by Jim Tierney Giesecke tells the origin stories of the 48 constellations first catalogued by the astronomer Ptolemy in the second century CE. A final section covers the names locations and brief descriptions of the remaining 40 constellations catalogued by astronomers in the sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which are not named for Classical figures.   Organized by hemisphere and celestial quadrant the book also includes two illustrated star maps to help guide the reader to the location of each constellation as well as 48 color plates throughout.     

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