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Greek astrologers had read Chaldean horoscopes (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
Horoscopes
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.01 Astrological and astronomical knowledge and theories
05.01.10 Astronomical and astrological texts
05.01.10.11 Horoscopes

Keywords
astrology
Mesopotamia
omens

Period
1st century BCE
Roman Empire

Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Cicero, De Divinatione 2.87:
Plato’s pupil, Eudoxus, whom the best scholars consider easily the first in astronomy, has left the following opinion in writing: ‘No reliance whatever is to be placed in Chaldean astrologers when they profess to forecast a man’s future from the position of the stars on the day of his birth.’

Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Cicero, De Divinatione 2.87

Bibliography

Dalley and Reyes 1998, 111	Dalley, S. and A. T. Reyes. “Mesopotamian Contact and Influence in the Greek World.” In: S. Dalley (ed.). The Legacy of Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1998, 85-124.
Falconer 1964, 468-471	Falconer, W. A. Cicero, De senectute, De amicitia, De divinatione. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1964.

Amar Annus

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