Disclosure and discretion in Roman astrology : Manilius and his Augustan contemporaries /
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| Language: | English Latin |
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Oxford University Press,
2014
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction -- Part 1: Manilius' Astronomica -- Manilius' Astronomica: a lesson in horoscopic obscurity -- Part 2: The rise of Roman astrology and Caesar's comet -- The rise of astrology in Rome -- The beginning and end of the late republican astrological debate: the politicized philosophical posturings of Cicero -- Part 3: Astrology for the Augustan age -- To have and to hold: astrology for an imperial age -- Setting gentlemanly limits for imperial stellar investigation in Vitruvius' De Architectura -- Concession, abstinence and abortion: Horace, Virgil, Hyginus and Ovid -- Stars and storms: the development of stellar causation in astronmeteorology -- Caesar's comet: the reinvigoration of a religious enquiry -- Turning on the practitioner: Propertius meets the charlatan -- Conclusion: Manilian dialogues and the relaxing of astrological discretion.