Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and ...

Cleostratus was a truly pioneering Greek astronomer who lived on the small Aegean island of Tenedos in the 6th century BC.

When pieces of an ancient two-handled cup were found in Greece in 1990 ... he thought the animals might be symbols of constellations. “A hundred people can look at an artifact and each bring ...

Its name comes from the Ancient Greek ὀφιοῦχος ... Hemisphere during the winter months. The constellation is home to several notable stars, including Alpha Ophiuchi, also known as ...

After boasting of her beauty to the Nereids or sea nymphs, she is punished rather harshly in my view by Poseidon and finds herself tethered to the north star Polaris to spin around it for perpetuity ...

The Babylonians also laid the foundations for the zodiac system, which was later adopted by Greek ... astronomy and the afterlife, where the ancient Egyptians were believed to become one with the ...