Babylonian Astro-medicine, Quadruplicities and Pliny the Elder
This article identifies the tradition of Babylonian Kalendertexte as the ultimate source for a passage in Pliny the Elder’s HN 30.95-97, thus establishing a link between Babylonian and Graeco-Roman astral medicine. Implications include the identification of the astrological square aspect (perhaps ca...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2021
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Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie
Year: 2021, Volume: 111, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-76 |
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| Summary: | This article identifies the tradition of Babylonian Kalendertexte as the ultimate source for a passage in Pliny the Elder’s HN 30.95-97, thus establishing a link between Babylonian and Graeco-Roman astral medicine. Implications include the identification of the astrological square aspect (perhaps called é , bītu , "house") in Babylonia, a connection with Hermeticism and the Greek medical theory of Critical Days, and the textual demonstration that Dreckapotheke -names did indeed refer to healing plants, in such a context. |
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| ISSN: | 1613-1150 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/za-2021-0007 |