Melothesia in Babylonia : : Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East / / Markham Judah Geller.
This monograph begins with a puzzle: a Babylonian text from late 5th century BCE Uruk associating various diseases with bodily organs, which has evaded interpretation. The correct answer may reside in Babylonian astrology, since the development of the zodiac in the late 5th century BCE offered innov...
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Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures ,
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Acknowledgements -- |t Contents -- |t Abbreviations -- |t Bibliography -- |t Introduction: Globalisation of Knowledge -- |t I. The Uruk ‘taxonomy’ (SBTU I 43) -- |t II. Uruk Astral Magic (BRM 4 20 and BRM 4 19) -- |t III. The Neo-Assyrian Precursor: Before the Zodiac -- |t IV. Ancient Aramaic and Greek Parallels -- |t V. Astrological Interpretation of SBTU I 43 -- |t VI. Melothesia -- |t VII. Concluding Hypothesis -- |t VIII. Appendix: Modern Reflections -- |t Indices |
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520 | |a This monograph begins with a puzzle: a Babylonian text from late 5th century BCE Uruk associating various diseases with bodily organs, which has evaded interpretation. The correct answer may reside in Babylonian astrology, since the development of the zodiac in the late 5th century BCE offered innovative approaches to the healing arts. The zodiac-a means of predicting the movements of heavenly bodies-transformed older divination (such as hemerologies listing lucky and unlucky days) and introduced more favorable magical techniques and medical prescriptions, which are comparable to those found in Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos and non-Hippocratic Greek medicine. Babylonian melothesia (i.e., the science of charting how zodiacal signs affect the human body) offers the most likely solution explaining the Uruk tablet. | ||
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538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
546 | |a In English. | ||
588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023) | |
650 | 0 | |a Astrology. | |
650 | 0 | |a Magic |z Mesopotamia. | |
650 | 7 | |a RELIGION / Ancient. |2 bisacsh | |
653 | |a astrology, medicine, magic, melothesia. | ||
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