Celestial Compass in Ancient Greece

Photorealistic depiction of a celestial compass, an ancient Greek navigational instrument, resting on a carved marble pedestal within a classical temple courtyard. The device is crafted from warm brass with intricate Greek inscriptions, rotating arms and an inner armillary-like ring. A polished needle points toward a star-filled night sky showing Orion, Ursa Major, and the Milky Way. Moonlight and torchlight reflect off the patina and polished brass, casting dramatic shadows across fluted columns, friezes, olive branches, and a distant Aegean horizon. Textures are hyper-real: marble grain, bronze patina, fine engravings, and a gentle atmospheric haze with subtle lens flare on bright stars. The composition foregrounds the compass with shallow depth of field, temple ruins softly blurred in the background, evoking scholarly mythic reverence for ancient astronomy.