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Analogies from the animals (1)

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04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore


 		Keywords
Greece
Mesopotamia
omens
physiognomy
Period
4th century BCE
Greek Classical Age
Neo-Assyrian Empire 		Channel
Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
Alamdimmû, TBP 21:
If he has the face of a fox, he is quarrelsome and a liar, his brother will be poor. If a woman has the face of a fox, she is a hypochondriac …

Aristotle, Physiognomy:
Those whose necks are full and thick are of savage temper; witness savage-tempred bulls. But those whose neck is of large size without being thick are magnanimous; witness the lions.

Sources (list of abbreviations)
Alamdimmû, TBP 21
Aristotle, Physiognomy

Bibliography

Böck 2000, 250 10-11Böck, Barbara. Die babylonisch-assyrische Morphoskopie. Archiv für Orientforschung, Beiheft 27. Vienna: Institut für Orientalistik der Universität Wien 2000.
Geller 2001-2002, 71-72Geller, Mark J. “West Meets East. Early Greek and Babylonian Diagnosis.” Archiv für Orientforschung 48/49 (2001-2002) 50-75.

Amar Annus


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