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Day: March 22, 2017

What are all the Greek star names?

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Posted in categories: Ancient Greek, Linguistics, Mediaeval Greek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arabic_star_names Drawing on: History of Constellation and Star Names In Greek astronomy the stars within the constellation figures were usually not given individual names. (There are only a few individual star names from Greece. The most prominent stars in the sky were usually nameless in Greek civilization. If there was a system of Greek star […]