Section outline

  • Topics:

    ·       astrology as divination

    ·       astrology as cosmology

    ·       astrology and society

     

    Greek Readings: Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos 1.1-1.2, 1.4; Stobaeum Hermeticum VI; Vettius Valens, Anthologiarum libri ix, V.6.25-71, VII.6.348

     

    Readings:

    ·       Luck, Astrology -  #102-126

    ·       Firmicus Maternus

    ·       Dorotheus Sidonius

    ·       Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos

    ·       Neugebauer, Greek Horoscopes

     

    ·       Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon, ch. 8

    ·       Gordon, Quaedam Veritatis Umbrae

    ·       Greenbaum, Arrows, Aiming, and Divination

    ·       Konstan, Evidence from Astrology

    ·       Riley, Theoretical and Practical Astrology

     

    Supplementary Readings:

    ·       Plato, Timaeus 38e-39e

    ·       Beck, Brief History of Ancient Astrology (available in Tripod as Ebook)

    ·       Barton, Ancient Astrology (esp. ch. 4 & 5) (available in Tripod as Ebook)

    ·       Gordon, Will My Child Have A Big Nose?

    ·       Greenbaum, Basic Techniques of Hellenistic Astrology

    ·       MacMullen, Social History in Astrology

    ·       Vettius Valens, Anthologia

     

    Astrology Assignment due at noon on Monday, April 7