Section outline

  • Week X (November 3)  Astrology

    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

    ·      Vettius Valens, Anthologia

     

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

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

    ·      Gordon, Will My Child Have A Big Nose?

    ·      Greenbaum, Basic Techniques of Hellenistic Astrology

    ·      MacMullen, Social History in Astrology

     

    Astrology Assignment due at noon on Monday, November 16