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Astronomy of the Chaldeans (1)

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11 Language, communication, libraries and education
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



 		Keywords
astrology
Greece
Mesopotamia
omens
Period
6th century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
pseudo-Nonnus, Epiphany 16 (Scholia):
The Chaldeans, from whom (there was) first Zarṭasht, and after him Zoroastres and Ostanes, recognised the movements of the heaven, and they said that at such and such a movement of the heavenly bodies, such and such would happen with those who were born (then). From the Chaldeans the Greeks learnt astrology, and they began to compare (the time of birth) of those who were born with the movements of the stars.

Source (list of abbreviations)
pseudo-Nonnus, Epiphany 16 (Scholia)

Bibliography

Brock 1971, 67Brock, Sebastian. The Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Nonnos Mythological Scholia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971.

Amar Annus


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