Question: did Greeks distinguish planets from stars?
Answer: Greeks distinguished planets from stars by studying them for a while and they just so happen to be really smart people. No offence to any other races , seriously because I'm not even Greek. i hope that helped
Planet means "wanderer". The planets moved against the background of the fixed stars.
Most ancient civilizations believed that everything revolved around the earth and in most cases they believed the earth to be flat. Also, it may have based around the religion of the civilization.
Because planet (πλανήτης) is Greek for Wanderer. As they viewed the stars, some "stars" seemed to wander. Sometimes in one direction, and then in the other (retrograde). They called these "stars" planets, although they didn't know then what they were.
Many of the constellations are pretty much the same today as they were in ancient Greece. Pegasus, Hercules, and Orion are examples, as are the signs of the Zodiac. The planets have ancient Roman names. Very few of the stars have ancient European names, as astronomy of ancient times was kept alive by Arabs, who used their own names for the stars.
Greek mythology attemped to explain everything that the ancient Greeks couldn't understand. Remember that ancient Greeks didn't know the things we know today. Some examples are: Death Love Birth Good and evil Creation Sicknesses The stars Life ... And more
Special moments, alignment of stars and planets
Those are called "planets". The ancient Greeks distinguished "fixed stars" - which is what we nowadays simply call "stars"; and the moving stars, which in Greek is called "planets".A planet certainly looks like a star (a very bright star, in some cases), but nowadays they are not usually called "stars".
The ancient Greeks called planets 'wanderers' because they appear to move through ther skies in relation to the 'fixed' stars. The apparent movement is because the planets are much closer to the Earth than the stars, and all planets rotate around the Sun, thus all move in relation to each other.
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stars earth and sun
Ah, I'm going to assume you mean the ancient Greeks, and have to say they saw many more than five stars. Modern Greeks might have a problem though; if they live in the heart of a well-lit city, the light can block out the stars. We call it light pollution. But the ancients saw only 5 wandering stars - called planets - because only 5 planets are bright enough to be seen reliably. (Uranus has been glimpsed throughout history, but never tracked.)
The ancient Greeks believed that every day, Apollo, the god of the sun, would ride a chariot a across the sky, pulling the sun behind him.
The ancient Greeks. I know the Babylonians and Sumerians were before the Greeks. I think the Chinese studied the stars even earlier.
the Greeks called the planets wanderers
Most ancient civilizations believed that everything revolved around the earth and in most cases they believed the earth to be flat. Also, it may have based around the religion of the civilization.
A long Time ago
In ancient roman times they used believe that comets were "bad omens".