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Fun Summer Fact
It’s all in the stars.
The phrase “the dog days of summer” doesn’t refer to an actual dog. To astronomists in ancient Greece and Rome, the constellation Canis Major (“the greater dog,” in Latin) showed a hound chasing the constellation Lepus, a hare. The star representing the dog’s nose is Sirius. Early astronomers noted that Sirius seemed to rise just before the sun during the hottest weeks of the year—late July to August. In this way, Sirius was associated with a season that could bring fever or catastrophe. Those calamitous days came to be known as “the dog days of summer.”
Shirley Eichenberger-Archer, JD, MA
Shirley Archer, JD, MA, is an internationally acknowledged integrative health and mindfulness specialist, best-selling author of 16 fitness and wellness books translated into multiple languages and sold worldwide, award-winning health journalist, contributing editor to Fitness Journal, media spokesperson, and IDEA's 2008 Fitness Instructor of the Year. She's a 25-year industry veteran and former health and fitness educator at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, who has served on multiple industry committees and co-authored trade books and manuals for ACE, ACSM and YMCA of the USA. She has appeared on TV worldwide and was a featured trainer on America's Next Top Model.
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