There do not seem to be a lot of individually named stars in greek astronomical mythology. The poem Phenomena by Aratus (c. 315/310—240 BC) lists 48 constellations, but only six individual stars are named. The Catasterismi by Eratosthenes (c. 276 BC—195/194 BC), of which only a later summary has survived, adds mythological stories to these. Ptolemy's Almagest, already treated in another answer, added only five more individual star names.

It was only Persian writer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi which in his Book of Fixed Stars (964 AD), expanding on Ptolomy, recorded a larger number of names.

The apparent difference between Greek and Arabic traditions seems to have been that the Greek saw star constellations as real pictures in the sky and told stories about them collectively, while the Arabic identified also individual stars as representations of people or animals.

For an overview, see the online book Ian Ridparth: Startales. Myths, legends, and history of the constellations. Chapter 3 and 4 list the 88 constellations that are commonly named by modern astronomers and tracks their individual history, including names used by Babylonians, Greeks, Romans and Arabs.

There do not seem to be a lot of individually named stars in Greek astronomical mythology. The poem Phenomena by Aratus (c. 315/310—240 BC) lists 48 constellations, but only six individual stars are named. The Catasterismi by Eratosthenes (c. 276 BC—195/194 BC), of which only a later summary has survived, adds mythological stories to these. Ptolemy's Almagest, already treated in another answer, added only five more individual star names.

It was only Persian writer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi which in his Book of Fixed Stars (964 AD), expanding on Ptolemy, recorded a larger number of names.

The apparent difference between Greek and Arabic traditions seems to have been that the Greek saw star constellations as real pictures in the sky and told stories about them collectively, while the Arabic identified also individual stars as representations of people or animals.

For an overview, see the online book Ian Ridparth: Startales. Myths, legends, and history of the constellations. Chapter 3 and 4 list the 88 constellations that are commonly named by modern astronomers and tracks their individual history, including names used by Babylonians, Greeks, Romans and Arabs.

There do not seem to be a lot of individually named stars in greek astronomical mythology. The poem Phenomena by Aratus lists 48 constellations, but only six individual stars are named. The Catasterismi by Eratosthenes, of which only a later summary has survived, adds mythological stories to these. Ptolemy's Almagest, already treated in another answer, added only five more individual star names.

It was only Persian writer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi which in his Book of Fixed Stars, expanding on Ptolomy, recorded a larger number of names.

The apparent difference between Greek and Arabic traditions seems to have been that the Greek saw star constellations as real pictures in the sky and told stories about them collectively, while the Arabic identified also individual stars as representations of people or animals.

For an overview, see the online book Ian Ridparth: Startales. Myths, legends, and history of the constellations. Chapter 3 and 4 list the 88 constellations that are commonly named by modern astronomers and tracks their individual history, including names used by Babylonians, Greeks, Romans and Arabs.

There do not seem to be a lot of individually named stars in greek astronomical mythology. The poem Phenomena by Aratus (c. 315/310—240 BC) lists 48 constellations, but only six individual stars are named. The Catasterismi by Eratosthenes (c. 276 BC—195/194 BC), of which only a later summary has survived, adds mythological stories to these. Ptolemy's Almagest, already treated in another answer, added only five more individual star names.

It was only Persian writer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi which in his Book of Fixed Stars (964 AD), expanding on Ptolomy, recorded a larger number of names.

The apparent difference between Greek and Arabic traditions seems to have been that the Greek saw star constellations as real pictures in the sky and told stories about them collectively, while the Arabic identified also individual stars as representations of people or animals.

For an overview, see the online book Ian Ridparth: Startales. Myths, legends, and history of the constellations. Chapter 3 and 4 list the 88 constellations that are commonly named by modern astronomers and tracks their individual history, including names used by Babylonians, Greeks, Romans and Arabs.