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Seneca on the astrological determinism (1)

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Horoscopes
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.01 Astrological and astronomical knowledge and theories
05.01.10 Astronomical and astrological texts
05.01.10.11 Horoscopes
Seven planetary gods
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.04 Concept of god (1)
01.04.03 Plurality of god (polytheism)
01.04.03.06 Seven planetary gods

Keywords
astrology
omens
Rome

Period
1st century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Seneca, De Consolatione ad Marciam 18.1-3:
Sun, Moon, stars and five planets … pursuing their different courses and striving to stem the headlong whirl of heaven. On even the slightest motion of these hang the fortunes of nations, and the greatest and smallest happenings are shaped to accord with the progress of a beneficent or maleficent star.

Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Seneca, De Consolatione ad Marciam 18.1-3

Bibliography

Barton 1994, 50-51

Barton, Tamsyn. Power and Knowledge, Astrology, Physiognomics, and Medicine under the Roman Empire. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1994.

Amar Annus

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