Pseudo-Manetho, Apotelesmatica: Books Four, One, and Five
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Book Overview The corpus of astrological material ascribed to the Egyptian priest Manetho consists of six books of poetry. This book serves as the comp...
The corpus of astrological material ascribed to the Egyptian priest Manetho consists of six books of poetry. This book serves as the companion to the one published by OUP in 2020, which was the first commentary in any language on the earliest three books of Manetho's poetry (two, three, and six as they appear in the manuscript). This volume supplies the remainder (books four, one, and five).
Manetho was credited with a series of didactic poems which list outcomes for planetary set-ups in a birth chart. The books covered in this volume are not as easily dated as those in the first volume, but the most recent is probably no later than the fourth century and they are still Egyptian. As in the first volume, their 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. Unlike in the first volume, however, the individual books treated here have different authors, and there is more emphasis on profiling individual poets in terms of style, metre, and mannerisms. As in the first volume, there is a Greek text with English translation and an apparatus with parallel material to enable comparison with related works. But this volume pays more attention to the transmission of traditional material from one author to another, and to the special approach required of an editor of material which, being in practical use, circulated in unstable and minutely-varying textual forms.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 1160 | Language: English | Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR | ISBN: 0192868470
FormatHardcover
Pages1160
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0192868470
EAN9780192868473
PublisherOXFORD UNIV PR
Publication Date1970-01-01
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight3.65 Pounds
Length9.45 Inches
Width6.37 Inches
Height2.43 Inches
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