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Melothesia in Babylonia : medicine, magic, and astrology in the ancient Near East / Markham J. Geller.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures ; v. 2.Publisher: Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xii, 100 pages .)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 1614516936
  • 9781614516934
  • 9781614519348
  • 161451934X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Melothesia in Babylonia.DDC classification:
  • 610.935 23
LOC classification:
  • R135.3 .G45 2014
NLM classification:
  • WZ 51
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction: globalisation of knowledge -- The Uruk taxonomy (SBTU I 43) -- Uruk astral magic (BRM 4 20 and BRM 4 19) -- The Neo-Assyrian precursor: before the zodiac -- Ancient Aramaic and Greek parallels -- Astrological interpretation of SBTU I 43 -- Melothesia -- Concluding hypothesis.
Summary: This book examines the Babylonian backgroundof melothesia, the science of charting zodiac influences on the human body, which transformed older divination by connecting astrology with medical techniques. Special attention is given to a text from late-5th-century Uruk, which is argued to be an important representative of this new approach to the healing arts, previously only known from Greek and medieval astrology.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: globalisation of knowledge -- The Uruk taxonomy (SBTU I 43) -- Uruk astral magic (BRM 4 20 and BRM 4 19) -- The Neo-Assyrian precursor: before the zodiac -- Ancient Aramaic and Greek parallels -- Astrological interpretation of SBTU I 43 -- Melothesia -- Concluding hypothesis.

This book examines the Babylonian backgroundof melothesia, the science of charting zodiac influences on the human body, which transformed older divination by connecting astrology with medical techniques. Special attention is given to a text from late-5th-century Uruk, which is argued to be an important representative of this new approach to the healing arts, previously only known from Greek and medieval astrology.

In English.