The true mythology of the constellations

The stars around Orion

Stars and Constellations

The prehistoric Boeotian colonies

Thebae
Prehistoric Chamber Tombs

Eleutherae
The fortification above the city

The Minoan Crete

Cecropia

       Cecrops I, King of Cecropia                                         Cecrops - from an Attic red figure (440 BC) - Berlin

The three wise daemons (half snakes) from the pediment

of the Old Parthenon. They are holding fire, water and a bird.

Acropolis Museum

Herakles and Antaios - Crater by Euphronios

HERAKLES is written with the old Greek alphabet,

and ANTAIOS from right to left.

On the upper part we read... ΕΦΡΟΝΙΟΣ ΕΓΡΑΦΣΕΝ.



Τutankhamun

One of my oil paintings (1985)

60 cm x 80 cm

From the back cover of my book

"Cheops, the great Architect" (1990).

Ptolemy's Constellations

The drawings were made in 2003 and were published in 2007-08 in the book "Klaudiou Ptolemaiou - Mathematike Syntaxis" (Almagest) - ISBN-SET :  9789606716058.


* The numbers next to the stars are according to the order they appear in Ptolemy's list.


      CONSTELLATIONS OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

      CONSTELLATIONS OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE