"First published as an Oxford world's classics paperback, 2015."--Verso of title page.

This A-to-Z reference offers in-depth information on the history and mythologies of the forty-eight classical constellations—with excerpts from ancient texts.

Share the wonder of the stars with this delightful storybook collection featuring constellation myths from around the world. For thousands of years people have

Every night, a pageant of Greek mythology circles overhead. Perseus flies to the rescue of Andromeda, Orion faces the charge of the snorting Bull, and the ship

Look to the sky and see the stories in the stars The stars and constellations are among the few remaining objects that appear to us just as they appeared to our