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Melothesia in Babylonia

Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East
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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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Mark Geller, Free University, Berlin.
Release date NZ
October 27th, 2014
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  • Professional & Vocational
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
9 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
112
Dimensions
170x240x10
ISBN-13
9781614517757
Product ID
22304568

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