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This is the first commentary in any language on three of the books of ancient Greek astrological poetry ascribed to the Egyptian priest Manetho. The volume includes a Greek text with English translation and an apparatus with parallel material to enable comparison with related works.
List of contents
- Conventions; Citations; Jargon
- Abbreviations
- Editions
- Part One: Astrology
- 1: Introduction: All the World's a Stage
- 2: Ars Divina
- 3: Human Science
- 4: The Manethoniana
- 5: Ps.-Manetho books 2, 3, 6, and the Comparanda
- Part Two: Poetics
- 1: Orthographica, Phonologica, Morphologica
- 2: Syntax
- 3: Poetic Diction
- 4: Techniques of Adaptation
- 5: Information
- 6: Style
- 7: Metre
- Part Three: The World of Astrology
- 1: Introduction
- 2: The Self
- 3: Class and Status
- 4: Social Groups
- 5: The Family
- 6: Ethics
- 7: Money
- 8: Professions, Professionals
- 9: Private Life
- 10: Conclusions: The Stars and the Emotions
- Part Four: Text
- 1: The Manuscript (Laur. Plut. 28,27)
- 2: The Edition
- 3: Sigla
- 4: Text and Translation
- Part Five: Commentary
- 2.1 140 Circles
- 2.141 9 Transition
- 2.150 398 Topikai Diakriseis
- 2.399 409 Transition
- 2.410 35 Planets with the Sun
- 2.436 40 Transition
- 2.441 502 Synaphai and Aporrhoiai of the Moon
- 3.1 7 Proem
- 3.8 131 Planets in the Cardines
- 3.132 226 Planets in Opposition across the Cardines
- 3.227 33 Transition
- 3.234 362 Aspects
- 3.363 98 Luminaries and Gender
- 3.399 428 On the Length of Life
- Book 6: Sample Charts and Table of Likenesses
- 6.1 18 Introduction
- 6.19 112 Nurture
- 6.113 23 Marriage
- 6.224 306 Children
- 6.307 39 Siblings
- 6.339 543 Technai
- 6.544 631 Harms
- 6.632 84 Loss of wealth
- 6.684 731 Birth of slaves
- 6.732 7 Recusatio
- 6.738 50 Sphragis: Horoscope
- Appendices
- Appendix 1: Technical vocabulary
- Appendix 2: Planetary Names and Epithets
About the author
J. L. Lightfoot is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Oxford and Charlton Fellow and Tutor in Classic at New College, Oxford. Her publications include
Dionysius Periegetes: Description of the Known World (2014),
The Sibylline Oracles (2007),
Lucian: 'On the Syrian Goddess' (2003), and
Parthenius of Nicaea: The Extant Works (1999).
Summary
This is the first commentary in any language on three of the books of ancient Greek astrological poetry ascribed to the Egyptian priest Manetho. The volume includes a Greek text with English translation and an apparatus with parallel material to enable comparison with related works.
