Star Myths: The Stories of the Constellations

The constellations. Images in the night sky our ancestors drew among the stars. They were used for navigation, fortune telling and story-telling. Different cultures had their own constellations, but our modern ones come from the ancient Greeks. They believed the constellations were reminders of their great myths placed there by the gods. Ptolemy, a Greco-Roman astronomer, named 48 constellations in his seminal work, the Almagest. In modern times, the International Astronomical Union recognizes a total of 88 constellations. In this video, I want to tell the stories these constellations express Sources: Star Tales by Ian Ridpath