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Topic: Life And Work of Vettius Valens, by Deb Houlding |
Levente Laszlo
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Forum: News, Notices, Books, Links Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 5:23 pm Subject: Life And Work of Vettius Valens, by Deb Houlding |
Right, that's sort of the end result of the effect I meant - when I said 'climes' I meant the sum total of them, so the region of the world in which people live basically. I tried to look into this a ... |
Topic: Life And Work of Vettius Valens, by Deb Houlding |
Levente Laszlo
Replies: 10
Views: 810
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Forum: News, Notices, Books, Links Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2020 4:15 pm Subject: Life And Work of Vettius Valens, by Deb Houlding |
Hi Paul
I do think though that there's something puzzling about the translation as you've provided it, it seems to not make much sense of what we know to be going on and I wonder if it's something ... |
Topic: Life And Work of Vettius Valens, by Deb Houlding |
Levente Laszlo
Replies: 10
Views: 810
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Forum: News, Notices, Books, Links Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 10:11 pm Subject: Life And Work of Vettius Valens, by Deb Houlding |
Hi Deb,
I also wish you a (bit late) merry Christmas!
I agree that the details of Valens’s charts should be investigated further, preferably together with a new and more reliable translation o ... |
Topic: Life And Work of Vettius Valens, by Deb Houlding |
Levente Laszlo
Replies: 10
Views: 810
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Forum: News, Notices, Books, Links Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2020 12:26 am Subject: Life And Work of Vettius Valens, by Deb Houlding |
Let me have a few remarks to the essay.
To Valens’s lifetime (p. 1 and n. 3 on p. 9). The latest nativity used by Valens (2.27.1–2) was dated to 10 August 188 by Neugebauer and van Hoesen (GH p ... |
Topic: New Hellenistic and Byzantine texts in translation |
Levente Laszlo
Replies: 10
Views: 2428
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Forum: Traditional (& Ancient) Techniques Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 8:49 pm Subject: New Hellenistic and Byzantine texts in translation |
Hi Astrojin,
I'm really glad to hear this! Discourses are one of a kind, at least I don't know any other texts giving such intimate insight into an astrology master's relationship with his pupil. I ... |
Topic: New Hellenistic and Byzantine texts in translation |
Levente Laszlo
Replies: 10
Views: 2428
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Forum: Traditional (& Ancient) Techniques Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2020 7:15 am Subject: New Hellenistic and Byzantine texts in translation |
Hi Astrojin,
Thank you! Discourses consist of 97 chapters in Greek, and there is an appendix of about 25 chapters, which is only partially extant in Greek but fully in Latin. These are of various l ... |
Topic: New Hellenistic and Byzantine texts in translation |
Levente Laszlo
Replies: 10
Views: 2428
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Forum: Traditional (& Ancient) Techniques Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 8:31 am Subject: New Hellenistic and Byzantine texts in translation |
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Topic: New Hellenistic and Byzantine texts in translation |
Levente Laszlo
Replies: 10
Views: 2428
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Forum: Traditional (& Ancient) Techniques Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2020 5:33 am Subject: New Hellenistic and Byzantine texts in translation |
paul shared a link 11 days ago here.. thanks...
http://skyscript.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10941&sid=ba31b5f25bb1d6785d0b5815b674cff2
If you please to follow my link, you'll see it's som ... |
Topic: New Hellenistic and Byzantine texts in translation |
Levente Laszlo
Replies: 10
Views: 2428
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Forum: Traditional (& Ancient) Techniques Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2020 9:40 pm Subject: New Hellenistic and Byzantine texts in translation |
If you like to study the source texts of Hellenistic and Byzantine astrology directly, this may interest you:
http://skyscript.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10953 |
Topic: New translation project from Greek to English |
Levente Laszlo
Replies: 1
Views: 1751
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Forum: News, Notices, Books, Links Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2020 8:42 pm Subject: New translation project from Greek to English |
Dear Skyreaders,
In the past fourteen years, you may have met my contributions in the traditional section of this forum, so perhaps I don’t need to introduce myself. But what I’d like to draw y ... |
Topic: Aspect doctrine in ancient astrology |
Levente Laszlo
Replies: 75
Views: 24770
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Forum: Traditional (& Ancient) Techniques Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:16 pm Subject: Aspect doctrine in ancient astrology |
Levente, does Mathesis 4.25 imply that aspects (applications and separations) are blocked by sign boundaries? And are there other Hellenistic sources that imply this?
Does it indicate some kind of ... |
Topic: Aspect doctrine in ancient astrology |
Levente Laszlo
Replies: 75
Views: 24770
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Forum: Traditional (& Ancient) Techniques Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 12:13 pm Subject: Aspect doctrine in ancient astrology |
Hi Dimitar,
Of course, we would be better informed about the issue if someone took up the arduous task to sift through the published texts so that every elucidating passage on the exact meaning of ... |
Topic: Aspect doctrine in ancient astrology |
Levente Laszlo
Replies: 75
Views: 24770
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Forum: Traditional (& Ancient) Techniques Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 12:52 pm Subject: Aspect doctrine in ancient astrology |
I've skipped this:
1. Are the constellations interchangeable with the signs in most authors, and isn't this plain clear from the term zoidion?
They are, it is.  |
Topic: Question concerning Tetrabiblos 2.11 |
Levente Laszlo
Replies: 3
Views: 3643
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Forum: Traditional (& Ancient) Techniques Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 12:50 pm Subject: Question concerning Tetrabiblos 2.11 |
Ptolemy might have thought of the tropical frame when talking about the sign in its entirety, and the constellational when describing its parts. At least this is how the commentators seem to interpret ... |
Topic: Question concerning Tetrabiblos 2.11 |
Levente Laszlo
Replies: 3
Views: 3643
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Forum: Traditional (& Ancient) Techniques Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 10:49 pm Subject: Question concerning Tetrabiblos 2.11 |
I checked a couple of medieval and early modern sources, but probably not the right ones to find anything about Ptolemy's meteorological astrology. Then I turned to the commentaries, and it seems that ... |
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