Melothesia in Babylonia

Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East

Markham Judah Geller (Autor)

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112 Seiten

2014
De Gruyter
978-1-61451-694-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Mark Geller, Free University, Berlin.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.11.2014
Reihe/Serie	Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures ; 2
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
Schlagworte	astrology, medicine, magic, melothesia
ISBN-10	1-61451-694-4 / 1614516944
ISBN-13	978-1-61451-694-1 / 9781614516941
Zustand	Neuware