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Month: March 2022

March 25, 2022
Manilius and the Planetary Joys: An Alternative Pythagorean Account of the Places in Hellenistic Astrology

Manilius and the Planetary Joys: An Alternative Pythagorean Account of the Places in Hellenistic Astrology

Marcus Manilius’s Astronomica is one of our oldest and most detailed historical sources for how ancient astrologers conceptualized the twelve places. Manilius is believed to have composed this work in the early first century, probably around 14 A.D.1 In contrast, Valens, whom astrologer Chris Brennan acclaims as “the single most important surviving source for studying …

March 2, 2022
Plato’s Timaeus: A Pythagorean Creation Myth

Plato’s Timaeus: A Pythagorean Creation Myth

The Timaeus is one of Plato’s most historically influential dialogues, because it, unlike the others, was translated into Latin1 and preserved in the medieval world. Yet it is also one of the hardest to understand. The bulk of this “dialogue” consists of a monologue by Timaeus, a Pythagorean philosopher from Locri, who tells an imaginative …

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