Dog days of summer
Jul 07, 2021
2 minutes
Illustration by Alan Baker
THE puppy days’, or ‘the dog days’, as we call them now, are marked next to the Ides of July in medieval calendars. Now, over the summer’s apotheosis, looms the heliacal ascent of the canine constellation Sirius, ‘Scorcher’, and, illustrated beside the calendar text, Leo, Heracles’s fierce
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