The Orphic Astrologer Critodemus : : Fragments with Annotated Translation and Commentary / / Cristian Tolsa.
Despite the relevance of astrology in Graeco-Roman mentality, our information about the early period of Hellenistic astrology is marred by the scarcity of original sources. Personal astrology did not take off until the late Hellenistic period, due to the more substantial Hellenization of Mesopotamia...
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| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte ,
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction
- First part: Fragments related to contextualization
- Chapter 1 Critodemus and Berossus in Pliny, via Varro (F 1–2)
- Chapter 2 Critodemus’ Horasis: the astrologers’ opinions (F 3–5)
- Chapter 3 Orphic oaths (F 6)
- Second part: Technical fragments
- Chapter 4 The “distributions”: Critodemus’ innovation? (F 7–9)
- Chapter 5 The “terms” (F 10)
- Chapter 6 On the time and kind of death (F 11–13)
- Chapter 7 The klimakteres (F 14–15)
- Chapter 8 Tables for calculating the length of life (F 16–20)
- Appendix I: timeline of ancient astrology
- Appendix II: basic astrological doctrines
- Appendix III: tables in Valens IX and his emulation of Critodemus
- References
- Index of select Greek and Latin words from the texts
- Index of authors
- General index