Constellation Myths (4, 2015) | Eratosthenes,Hyginus,Aratus

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''Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens.'' The constellations we recognize today were first mapped by the ancient Greeks, who arranged the stars into patterns for that purpose. In the t…