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- Title
Babylonian Astro-medicine, Quadruplicities and Pliny the Elder.
- Authors
Rumor, Maddalena
- Abstract
This article identifies the tradition of Babylonian Kalendertexte as the ultimate source for a passage in Pliny the Elder's HN 30.95–97, thus establishing a link between Babylonian and Graeco-Roman astral medicine. Implications include the identification of the astrological square aspect (perhaps called é, bītu, "house") in Babylonia, a connection with Hermeticism and the Greek medical theory of Critical Days, and the textual demonstration that Dreckapotheke-names did indeed refer to healing plants, in such a context.
- Subjects
BABYLONIA; PLINY, the Elder, ca. 23-79; OLDER people; CRITICAL theory
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Assyriologie & Vorderasiatische Archäologie, 2020, Vol 111, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
0084-5299
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/za-2021-0007