Greek Constellations : Audible

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About constellations, The asterisms that dominate the 48 Greek constellations were known long before Ptolemy. He was merely the first (known) astronomer to catalogue them, drawing on earlier works by Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian, and Assyrian astronomers. The star patterns themselves had already been recorded by earlier observers and some of the known depictions date back to prehistoric times. For instance, a depiction of Orion constellation found in a cave in Germany is estimated to be 32,000 to 38,000 years old. Taurus has been associated with a bull since the Chalcolithic, possibly even the Upper Paleolithic. The figure we know as Auriga was mentioned in the MUL.APIN, a Babylonian compendium compiled around 1000 BCE, a full millennium before Ptolemy.

The only constellation that was given a separate status by Ptolemy is Libra. Known as Χηλαί (Chelae, meaning “the pincers”) in Ptolemy’s time, Libra was part of the neighbouring constellation Scorpius. It represented the Scorpion’s claws. The names of its bright stars Zubeneschamali, Zubenelgenubi and Zubenelhakrabi were derived from Arabic phrases meaning “the northern claw,” the southern claw,” and “the claws of the Scorpion” respectively. Even though the Romans started associating the stars of what is now Libra with scales in the first century BCE, Ptolemy continued calling the constellation Chelae. The constellation’s association with balance did not begin with the Romans. It goes back to the Babylonians, who knew the constellation as ZIB.BA.AN.NA or “the balance of heaven” about a millennium before Ptolemy.

Cassiopeia is a constellation in the northern sky, named after the vain queen Cassiopeia in Greek mythology, who boasted about her unrivaled beauty. Cassiopeia was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century Greek astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations today. It is easily recognizable due to its distinctive 'W' shape, formed by five bright stars.

The pleiades were the seven daughters of the titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione born on Mount Cyllene. They were the sisters of Calypso, Hyas, the Hyades, and the Hesperides. Together with the seven Hyades, they were called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, nursemaids and teachers to the infant Dionysus. They were thought to have been translated to the night sky as a cluster of stars, the Pleiades, and were associated with rain.