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In the Path of the Moon
Francesca Rochberg
其他書名
Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy
出版
BRILL
, 2010
主題
Literary Collections / Essays
History / Ancient / General
Body, Mind & Spirit / Astrology / General
Religion / Antiquities & Archaeology
ISBN
9789004183896
9004183892
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vYluiWFPsjMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Celestial divination, in the form of omens from lunar, planetary, astral, and meteorological phenomena, was central to Mesopotamian cuneiform scholarship and science from the late second millennium BCE into the Hellenistic period. Beyond the boundaries of ancient Mesopotamia, the ideas, texts, and traditions of Babylonian celestial divination are traceable in Hellenistic sciences and philosophies. This collection of essays investigates features of Babylonian celestial divination with special focus on those aspects that influenced later Greco-Roman astronomy, astrology, and theories of signs. A multi-faceted collection of philological, historical, and philosophical investigations, "In the Path of the Moon" offers Assyriologists, Classicists, and historians of ancient science a wide-ranging series of studies unified around the theme of Babylonian celestial divination's legacy. "The collected essays in this volume, successive steps in an ordered path, constitute an invaluable contribution to a better understanding of Babylonian divination." "Lorenzo Verderame, "Sapienza" Universit di Roma"