ABBREVIATION SIZE GREEK CONSTELLATIONS PTOLEMY THE ALMAGEST GREEK NAME DOGS ARE TO THE CONSTELLATIONS CANIS MAJOR CANIS MINOR HUNTING DOGS CANES VENATICI THE TOP DOG SIMPLY POPULARLY THE DOG STAR BRILLIANT STAR ENTIRE NIGHT SKY ALMOST CERTAINLY CONSTELLATION ARATUS FOLLOWING ON HEELS MASTER STANDING HIND LEGS SIRIUS MANILIUS SEEMS CROSS THE SKY PURSUIT LEPUS TO THE NORTH SMALLER THE SCENT SNIFFING CHART XVIII JOHANN BODE THE DOG MARKING CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGISTS ERATOSTHENES HYGINUS SWIFT OUTRUN LONG LIST ONE OF THEM DAUGHTER KING ERECHTHEUS ATHENS WIFE CEPHALUS VERSION GODDESS ACCOUNT SAYS ZEUS WHOSE KING OF PRESENTED JAVELIN NEVER TURNED UNLUCKY INHERITED THEBES EGYPT NORTH VICIOUS FOX THE FOX FOOT DESTINED CAUGHT LAELAPS THE HOUND CATCH WHATEVER IT PURSUED ALMOST FASTER THE EYE INESCAPABLE MOMENT SEEM CLOSE JAWS THIN AIR RACED NO RESOLUTION IN THE SKY DOG STAR NAME THE STAR COMES THE GREEK WORD MEANING SOMETHING TIMES RISING AT DAWN THE SUN MARKED START HOTTEST HENCE FORTH FLAME DOUBLES THE BURNING HEAT OF THE SUN BELIEF THE GREEKS ROMANS HEATING THE ROMAN WRITER PLINY THE ELDER COMMON KNOWLEDGE AWARE THE HEAT THE RISING ASKED NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT HESIOD DRAINED VIRGIL THE GEORGICS TORRID CRACKS EVEN THOUGH SAME NAME THE WHOLE JOHANN BAYER URANOMETRIA STAR ATLAS THE MOUTH BAYER BODE HEVELIUS FLAMSTEED GERMANICUS CAESAR HEALTHY CROPS LEAVES ROOTS THE FARMER LIKES HATES SAVE ABODE ANTICIPATING THE MODERN VIEW STARS BODIES CONTRADICTION BEAMS FACE DESCRIPTION THE COLOUR CONTRAST REFERENCE CAUSED MANNER OF IN FACT NEARLY BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN LIES LIGHT YEARS AWAY WHITE DWARF COMPANION VISIBLE ORBITS ALSO KNOWN AS ALHABOR ARABIC NAME ASTROLABES GEOFFREY CHAUCER TREATISE ON THE ASTROLABE WRITTEN IN ENGLISH THE POSITION ASTRONOMERS EVENTUALLY SETTLED THE ORIGINAL PREFERENCE ARABIC BETA CANIS MAJORIS ACROSS THE SKY ASTRONOMER THE ARABS GAVE BRIGHT BETA CANIS MINORIS GAMMA ORIONIS ATTRIBUTION LYING FORMING NINE PETRUS PLANCIUS CREATE NEW CONSTELLATION CHINESE CHINESE ASTRONOMERS SAID TO INVASION GOOD ILLUSTRATION CHINESE CONSTELLATIONS REMODELLED ASTROLOGER REPRESENTING MARKET SOLDIERS BUY PROVISIONS BARTER GOODS THIS WAS RING XI CANIS MAJORIS ALTERNATIVE INTERPRETATION PHEASANT CANIS MAJORIS BETA OF 6 MAKING UP SIMILAR MALLEABILITY SEEN THE CASE THE BOW DEPICTION KAPPA TAU CANIS MAJORIS XI PUPPIS DELTA LANG SHOW DEFIANCE THIEVES SEES PUPPIS DELTA CANIS MAJORIS THE TIP FIGURE SOMETIMES IAN RIDPATH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED RETURN INDEX