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Okay, so who was Ptolemy?
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What is a constellation?
  • A constellation is an arbitrary configuration of stars, usually
  • named after some object, animal or mythological being that
  • they supposedly suggest in outline.
  • Webster New World Dictionary – Third College Edition
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Modern Constellations
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What Exactly is a Myth?
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Star Patterns & Imagination
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Star Patterns & Imagination
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Hercules in Mythology
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Constellation Hercules
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Hercules Grows to Manhood
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The First Labor
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Leo in Constellation
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The Second Labor
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Hydra in Constellation
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Constellation Cancer
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The Eleventh Labor
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Draco in Constellation
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Hercules & the Argonaut Tales
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Constellation Aries
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Orpheus & His Lyre
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Orpheus in the Underworld
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Lyra in Constellation
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The Story of Orion
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Orion in Constellation
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Orion
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Scorpius in the Sky
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Perseus in Myth
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Constellation Perseus
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Perseus in Myth
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Constellation Pegasus
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Perseus in Myth
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 Andromeda the Constellation
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 Constellation Cassiopeia
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Cepheus as a Constellation
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Constellation Cetus
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