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Pseudo-Manetho, Apotelesmatica, Books Two, Three, and Six - Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)
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Pseudo-Manetho, Apotelesmatica, Books Two, Three, and Six - Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)
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This is the first commentary in any language on three of the books
of ancient Greek astrological poetry ascribed to the Egyptian
priest Manetho. Manetho, who became a figure for recondite wisdom,
came to be credited with a series of didactic poems which list
outcomes for planetary set-ups in a horoscope or birth chart. This
book contends that we can learn a great deal from this material
about the intellectual, cultural, social, and literary history of
the world in which it was written-Hadrianic Egypt, and the
second-century Roman Empire at large. Its descriptions of the kinds
of person who are born under happy and unhappy configurations of
stars speak to the lived realities, aspirations, and fears of the
astrologer's clientele. Given astrology's enormous contemporary
prestige, this means we are offered insights into the mental
universe and values of the common man, l'homme moyen sensuel, that
elite literature largely bypasses. The volume addresses current
work on the emotions and popular ethics. It also brings to the fore
a neglected witness to a type of imperial didactic
poetry-functional, technical in content, and yet sharing a degree
of artistry with better-known poets such as Dionysius the
Periegete. The Manethonian poems are placed in the context of other
ancient astrological literature-much of it very different in idiom,
complexity, and method-but also in the wider one of other
divinatory texts, philosophical writing, and the novel. There is a
Greek text with English translation and an apparatus with parallel
material to enable comparison with related works.
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