Pseudo-Manetho, Apotelesmatica, Books Two, Three, and Six

Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvLightfoot,LIGHTFOOT,J. L. Lightfoot,University of Oxford) Lightfoot, J. L. (Professor of Greek Literature, Professor of Greek Literature

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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. Manetho, who became a figure for recondite wisdom, came to be credited with a series of didactic poems which list outcomes for planetary set-ups in a horoscope or birth chart. This book contends that we can learn a great deal from this material about the intellectual, cultural, social, and literary history of the world in which it was written--Hadrianic Egypt, and the second-century Roman Empire at large. Its descriptions of the kinds of person who are born under happy and unhappy configurations of stars speak to the lived realities, aspirations, and fears of the astrologer's clientele. Given astrology's enormous contemporary prestige, this means we are offered insights into the mental universe and values of the common man, l'homme moyen sensuel, that élite literature largely bypasses.The volume addresses current work on the emotions and popular ethics. It also brings to the fore a neglected witness to a type of imperial didactic poetry--functional, technical in content, and yet sharing a degree of artistrywith better-known poets such as Dionysius the Periegete. The Manethonian poems are placed in the context of other ancient astrological literature--much of it very different in idiom, complexity, and method--but also in the wider one of other divinatory texts, philosophical writing, and the novel. There is a Greek text with English translation and an apparatus with parallel material to enable comparison with related works.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-11-10
Mått162 x 240 x 60 mm
Vikt1 452 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor1 040
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198858782

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Conventions; Citations; JargonAbbreviationsEditionsPart One: Astrology1: Introduction: All the World's a Stage2: Ars Divina3: Human Science4: The Manethoniana5: Ps.-Manetho books 2, 3, 6, and the ComparandaPart Two: Poetics1: Orthographica, Phonologica, Morphologica2: Syntax3: Poetic Diction4: Techniques of Adaptation5: Information6: Style7: MetrePart Three: The World of Astrology1: Introduction2: The Self3: Class and Status4: Social Groups5: The Family6: Ethics7: Money8: Professions, Professionals9: Private Life10: Conclusions: The Stars and the EmotionsPart Four: Text1: The Manuscript (Laur. Plut. 28,27)2: The Edition3: Sigla4: Text and TranslationPart Five: Commentary2.1 140 Circles2.141 9 Transition2.150 398 Topikai Diakriseis2.399 409 Transition2.410 35 Planets with the Sun2.436 40 Transition2.441 502 Synaphai and Aporrhoiai of the Moon3.1 7 Proem3.8 131 Planets in the Cardines3.132 226 Planets in Opposition across the Cardines3.227 33 Transition3.234 362 Aspects3.363 98 Luminaries and Gender3.399 428 On the Length of LifeBook 6: Sample Charts & Table of Likenesses6.1 18 Introduction6.19 112 Nurture6.113 23 Marriage6.224 306 Children6.307 39 Siblings6.339 543 Technai6.544 631 Harms6.632 84 Loss of wealth6.684 731 Birth of slaves6.732 7 Recusatio6.738 50 Sphragis: HoroscopeAppendicesAppendix 1: Technical vocabularyAppendix 2: Planetary Names and Epithets

A spectacular piece of scholarship ... What makes this book nevertheless a pleasure to read is the (largely) accessible, humorous and warm manner in which it is written: there is, for example, a recurring joke about garum (226, 279) and a self-aware comment about Lightfoot's famous (to some) haunt in Oxford's Bodleian Library (371). So be under no illusion that diving into the world of the Apotelesmatica will be a disorientating experience for most students and scholars of the Greek and Roman world; but know also that you could have no more genial or supportive a guide.