Ancient Skies

Listener Reviews

1. 5.0(1)

   Nailed it

   Concise and clear to follow. Thank you. Exactly what I was looking for to understand constellations and their ties to astronomy, mathematics and philosophy.

   Alycia Chen · January 29, 2025

2. 3.0(1)

   Great Stories- but heavily edited in current form

   I really enjoyed this book until I started looking up some of the names to see how they were spelled, and uncovered that it seems to me that the author is taking a large role in telling the stories and stitching them together. I asked a friend of mine who is a PHD student in history and he found the book in the library and told me the citations were not great. We also could not find any academic peer reviews of the book, and the publisher isn't an academic publisher. Thus, for now, I think the stories are taking substantial artistic license with the ancient Greek sources.

   The writing is great, the narration is great, and I think children would love the book. I have to set it down though, as I can't trust it to teach me exactly what the ancient Greeks really thought, which is why I was reading. As far as a collection of stories about the constellations inspired by Greek mythology though, it is great. if Professor Marshall was had written in ancient Greece, we would all know these stories since they so memorable.

   Zoey Crawford · August 26, 2024

3. 5.0(1)

   Fascinating Mythology

   As somebody who loves stargazing, I found this book to be a brilliant reference for the mythology behind the constellations that I often look and wonder upon.

   Jody Huff · June 24, 2019

4. 5.0(1)

   great info o constellation mythology

   so glad to finally learn constellation mythology and this audiobook was the best way to do it!

   Alize Wall · April 29, 2019