He is said to have been taken to heaven by Jupiter after the invention of wagons.
URSA MAJOR, the Bear .-- One of the prominent northern constellations, situated near the north pole.

It contains the stars called the Dipper.
Ursa Minor contains the pole-star, which is shown in the extremity of the tail of the bear.
ANDROMEDA .-- A northern constellation, represented by a woman chained; as, according to Grecian fable, Andromeda, the daughter of Cassiopia, was bound to a rock by the Nereides, and afterwards released by Perseus.
Minerva changed her into a constellation after her death, and placed her in the heavens.
DRACO OR DRAGON .-- A northern constellation, supposed to represent the Dragon that guarded the Hesperian fruit, and was killed by Hercules.
It is said that Juno took it up to heaven and placed it among the constellations.
BOOTIS, the Ox driver: so called because this constellation seems to follow the Great Bear as the driver follows his oxen.

Bootis is represented as grasping in his right hand a sickle and in his left a club, and is fabled to have been Icarius, who was transported to heaven because he was a great cultivator of the vine; for when Bootes rises the works of ploughing and cultivation go forward.
CORONA BOREALIS.

Northern Crown .-- One of the old northern constellations, between Hercules and Bootes.
CORONA AUSTRALIS--Southern Crown .-- One of the old constellations in the southern hemisphere, between Sagittarius and Scorpio.

The Corona were fabled to be Menippe and Metioche, two daughters of Orion, who sacrificed themselves at the suggestion of an oracle, to protect Boeotia, their native country, from the ravages of a pestilence: it being the belief of idolatrous nations that an angry god could be propitiated by human sacrifices, and that the death of the innocent might atone for the sins of the guilty.