: Markham Judah Geller
: Melothesia in Babylonia Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
: 9781614519348
: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient CulturesISSN
: 1
: CHF 93.10
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: Antike
: English
: 112
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This book examines the Babylonian background of 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.

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Mark Geller, Free University, Berlin.