The Daimon in Hellenistic astrology : origins and influence /
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In The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence , Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum investigates for the first time the concept of the daimon (daemon, demon), normally confined to religion and philosophy, within the theory and practice of ancient western astrology (2nd century BCE - 7th century CE). This multi-disciplinary study covers the daimon within astrology proper as well as the daimon and astrology in wider cultural practices including divination, Gnosticism, Mithraism and Neo-Platonism. It explores relationships between the daimon and fate and Daimon and Tyche (fortune or chance), and the doctrine of lots as exemplified in Plato's Myth of Er. In finding the impact of Egyptian and Mesopotamian ideas of fate on Hellenistic astrology, it critically examines astrology's perception as propounding an unalterable destiny.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004306219 :
1566-7952 ; :
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The Great Introduction to Astrology by Abū Maʿšar (2 volumes)
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Abū Ma'͑šar's Great Introduction to Astrology (mid-ninth century) is the most comprehensive and influential text on astrology in the Middle Ages. In addition to presenting astrological doctrine, it provides a detailed justification for the validity of astrology and establishes its basis within the natural sciences of the philosophers. These two volumes provide a critical edition of the Arabic text; a facing English translation, which includes references to the divergences in the twelfth-century Latin translations of John of Seville and Hermann of Carinthia (Volume 1); and the large fragment of a Greek translation (edited by David Pingree). Comprehensive Arabic, English, Greek and Latin glossaries enable one to trace changes in vocabulary and terminology as the text passed from one culture to another. (Volume 2.)
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004381230 :
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Anthologies.
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Revision of the author's thesis--Université de Paris-Sorbonne.
Text in French and Greek. :
1 online resource (xv, 245 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. xi-xv) and index. :
9789004301412 :
0531-1950 ; :
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