Melothesia in Babylonia. Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East

• Tác giả: Markham Judah Geller
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1614516934
• ISBN-13: 978-1614517757
• ISBN-13: 978-1614519348
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 610.935 Medicine and health
• Thông tin xuất bản: Boston ; Berlin ; Munich : De Gruyter, 2014
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (112 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 179435
• Chủ đề: 1. History: specific events & topics; 2. Middle Eastern history

Tóm tắt

This book examines the Babylonian backgroundof melothesia, the science of charting zodiac influences on the human body, which transformed older divination by connecting astrology with medical techniques. Special attention is given to a text from late-5th-century Uruk, which is argued to be an important representative of this new approach to the healing arts, previously only known from Greek and medieval astrology.