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Melothesia in Babylonia - Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East (Hardcover)
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Melothesia in Babylonia - Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East (Hardcover)
Series: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures
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This monograph begins with a puzzle: a Babylonian text from late
5th century BCE Uruk associating various diseases with bodily
organs, which has evaded interpretation. The correct answer may
reside in Babylonian astrology, since the development of the zodiac
in the late 5th century BCE offered innovative approaches to the
healing arts. The zodiac-a means of predicting the movements of
heavenly bodies-transformed older divination (such as hemerologies
listing lucky and unlucky days) and introduced more favorable
magical techniques and medical prescriptions, which are comparable
to those found in Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos and non-Hippocratic Greek
medicine. Babylonian melothesia (i.e., the science of charting how
zodiacal signs affect the human body) offers the most likely
solution explaining the Uruk tablet.
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