Section outline

  • Week X (November 2 & 4)  Astrology

    Topics:

    ·      astrology as divination

    ·      astrology as cosmology

    ·      astrology and society

     

    Readings:

    ·      Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon, ch. 8

    ·      Luck, Astrology  (#102-126)

    ·      Firmicus Maternus

    ·      Dorotheus Sidonius

    ·      Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos

    ·      Neugebauer, Greek Horoscopes

     

    Astrology Assignment due at noon on Monday, November 16

    Supplementary Readings:

    • ·       Plato, Timaeus 38e-39e
    • ·       Vettius Valens, Anthologia
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    • ·       Barton, Ancient Astrology (esp. ch. 4 & 5) (available in Tripod as Ebook)
    • ·       Beck, Brief History of Ancient Astrology (available in Tripod as Ebook)
    • ·       Gordon, Quaedam Veritatis Umbrae
    • ·       Gordon, Will My Child Have A Big Nose?
    • ·       Greenbaum, Arrows, Aiming, and Divination
    • ·       Greenbaum, Basic Techniques of Hellenistic Astrology
    • ·       Konstan, Evidence from Astrology
    • ·       MacMullen, Social History in Astrology
    • ·       Riley, Theoretical and Practical Astrology