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Lupus's Constellation

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The Constellation I chose is Lupus, also called „the Wolf“. It’s located in the southern sky and was one of the 48 constellations, which were listed by Ptolemy, a second century astronomer. Previously it was an asterism associated with its neighbour constellation Centaurus, but belongs to the now 88 official constellations. It has nine main stars, 41 Bayer stars and five stars with planets. Lupus is surrounded by six different constellations: Hydra, Scorpius, Norma, Circinus, Libra and Centaurus.

I decided to write about this constellation, because I’ve always been fascinated by wolfs and wanted to know more about the constellation named after it.

Officially the constellation Lupus doesn’t have a myth belonging to it, but it can be based on the story of the ancient king of Arcadia, king Lycaon. It’s said that he ruled Arcadia with his fifty sons and he still practiced human sacrifice while other parts of Greece declined it as barbaric. There are two different versions about it: …show more content…

Zeus was so angered about it that he transfigured him into a wolf and killed all of his fifty sons with a lightning.

The other version says that Zeus visited Arcadia disguised as a traveller. Lycaon and his sons offered him food, a soup made out of the meat of goats and sheep and of his son Nyctimus. Zeus was disgusted and killed all fifty sons with a lightning bolt, reviving Nyctimus in the process.

My own myth tells the story of an ancient creature, which was only sighted in moments of

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