Quote by Errol Coder

Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image…

— John Berger

“Since before even the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians, human beings used the stars and seasons to track time and record their most important moments.…

— Sam Kean

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them

— Marilyn vos Savant

“If there is one fable, which would seem entitled to escape the analysis, which we have undertaken of religious poems and sacred legends, by…

— Anonymous

“It is instructive to note that different cultures "discovered" completely different constellations in the sky, a fact that is more consistent with the idea…

— Massimo Pigliucci

“Ancient astrology was rather different from the modern horoscope. Its more learned practitioners enjoyed intellectual respectability, and there was a substantial overlap between astrology…

— Helen Morales

“If ‘myth’ is a slippery term, so is ‘classical’. It is common shorthand for ‘ancient Greek and Roman’. But this shorthand has a history,…

— Helen Morales

"The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths." While Horace…

— H. P. Blavatsky

“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born of the…

— Helen Morales

“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters it.”

— Helen Morales

“That black, maddening firmament; that vast cosmic ocean, endlessly deep in every direction, both Heaven and Pandemonium at once; mystical Zodiac, speckled flesh of…

— Mark X

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up…

— Mark Twain