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Title: Late Classical Astrology:Paulus Alexandrinus and Olimpiodorus, with the Scholia from later commentators
Author: Paulus Alexandrinus(4th c.) / Olimpiodorus
Translator: Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum, M.A.
Publisher: ARHAT



--- Contents ---
List of Tables i
Foreword by Robert Hand ii
Translator's Preface to Paulus and Olympiodorus iv
........Historical Background v
........Paulus Alexandrinus and the Introduction vi
........The Scholia vi
........The Olympiodorus Commentary on Paulus vii
........Format of This Translation vii
........Texts Used for This Translation vii
........Translation Conventions viii
........Acknowledgments viii
........Zoidion, Horoskopos, and Pivot ix
Introductory Matters 1
1. Introduction to the Second Edition 1
2. Concerning the Twelve Zoidia 1
......Scholia for Chapter 2 5
3. Concerning the Bounds Which the Five Wandering Stars Are Allotted in the Twelve Zoidia
......[On Account of Rejoicing in These Degrees Just as If They Found Themselfes in Their Own Zoidia]
6
......Scholia for Chapter 3 7
4. Concerning the Faces in the Twelve Zoidia which the Steven Stars hold according to Decans 9
......Scholia for Chapter 4 10
5. Concerning which of the Seven Stars are Masters of the Monomoiria, by Zoidion 12
......Scholia for Chapter 5 13
6. Concerning the Sect of the Two Lights 14
7. Concerning the Quadrants 15
8. Concerning the Zoidia which See One another 16
......Scholia for Chapter 8 16
9. Concerning Those which Command and Obey 17
10. Concerning the Trigons, Hexagons, Squares and Diameters by Figure 17
......Scholion for Chapter 10 18
11. Concerning the Zoidia Unconnected to One another 19
12. Concerning the [Zoidia] Averse and Sympathetic to One Another 19
......Scholion for Chapter 12 20
13. Concerning the Like-engirding and Equally-rising Twelfth-parts which Make Figures 20
14. Concerning the Phases which the Five Stars make to the Sun 20
......Scholia for Chapter 14 22
15. Concerning Stations 29
......Scholia for Chapter 15 30
16. Concerning the Figures which the Moon Makes to the Sun 31
......Scholia for Chapter 16 33
17. Concerning the Separation and Application which the Moon Makes to the Wandering Stars 33
......Scholia for Chapter 17 34
18. Concerning Foreknowledge of Winds 35
......Scholion for Chapter 18 35
19. Concerning Knowing how Many Days of the Gods There Are 35
......Scholia for Chapter 19 36
20. Concerning Knowing to which of the Gods Each Day Belongs 36
......Scholia for Chapter 20 37
21. Concerning the [Star] Presiding and the One Managing 39
22. Concerning Dodekatemoria (Twelfth-parts) 40
......Scholion for Chapter 22 41
23. Concerning the Seven Lots in the Panaretus 41
......Scholia for Chapter 23 44
24. Concerning the Tabular Exposition of the Twelve Places 44
......Scholia for Chapter 24 51
25. Concerning Children 54
......Scholia for Chapter 25 55
26. Concerning What One Does 57
......Scholia for Chapter 26 57
27. Concerning the Declines 58
......Scholia for Chapter 27 60
28. Concerning the Motion of the Sun and Learning in what Zoidion and Roughly what Degree It Is 60
......Scholia for Chapter 28 61
29. Concerning How One Must Calculate the Horoskopos 62
30. Concerning the Midheaven 63
......Scholion for Chapter 30 63
31. Concerning Year, Month and Day 65
32. Concerning the Monomoiria by Trigon 66
......Scholion for Chapter 32 67
33. Concerning the Indispensable Degree of the Horoskopos through Natural Methods 68
......Scholia for Chapter 33 69
34. Concerning Crises 70
......Scholia for Chapter 34 72
35. Concerning the Bond of the Moon 73
......Scholion for Chapter 35 74
36. Concerning Rulership 74
......Scholion for Chapter 36 76
37. The Nativity of the Cosmos 76
Heliodorus, as it is Said, in the Commentary on Paulus Alexandrinus 78
1. Concerning the Quality of the Figures and into What They are Collected 78
......Concerning Figures 78
2. What is Application and Separation 79
3. Concerning the Quality of the 4 Figures 80
4. Concerning Unconnected and Unfigured [Zoidia] 81
5. Concerning Equally-ascending and Like-engirding [Zoidia] 82
6. Concerning Those on the Right and Left 83
7. Concerning Those Ascending and Declining 84
8. Concerning Appearances and Settings 84
9. Concerning When a Morning Rising is Said [to Occur] and When a Station, Acronycal, Acceleration and also Morning and Evening Setting 85
10. Concerning Risings, Disappearances, Additions, Subtractions and Wanderings 88
11. Concerning Conjoining Stars 88
12. Concerning Stations 89
13. Concerning Whether the Father or Son is Hurt 90
14. Concerning How the Stations Differ 91
15. Concerning the Figures of the Moon 92
16. Concerning the Figures of the Moon with Respect to the Stars 94
17. Concerning What Kind of Wind Will Blow 96
18. Concerning Lord of the Day, Both the One Presiding and the One Managing 97
......Concerning Managing 98
19. Concerning the Dodekatemoria of the 7Stars 99
20. Concerning the Pivots 101
21. Concerning Lot[s] and Their Dodekatemoria 101
22. Concerning the Names of the Seven Lots and What It Means 103
......These Diurnal Lots; For a Nocturnal Nativity the Reverse 106
......The Lots Otherwise, Better 107
......Concerning All the Lots of the Ancients 109
Beginning of the Second Section 111
23. Concerning the 12 Places, How They are Called and What it Means 111
......Concerning the Separation of the Twelve Places 118
24. Concerning Children 121
25. Concerning What One Does 123
26. Concerning the Declines 124
27. On Knowing What Degree the Sun and the Horoskopos [Are] 126
28. Concerning the Degree and through How Much Time Each Zoidion is Brought Up 128
29. Concerning Year, Month and Day 130
30. Concerning a Year 132
31. Concerning a Month 133
32. Concerning a Day 133
33. Concerning an Hour 134
34. Concerning the Monomoiria by Trigon 134
......Translator's Addendum to this Chapter 138
......Criteria for Determining Monomoiriai by Trigon 139
35. Concerning the Indispensable Degree of the Horoskopos 140
36. Concerning the Given Hour 144
37. Concerning the Time of Conception 145
38. Concerning Crises 145
39. Concerning the Bond of the Moon 150
40. Concerning Ruler and Times of Life 152
Appendix I:Categories of Lots 155
......Duplicate Lots(same name, different planets) 161
Appendix II:The Calendar Used by Paulus and Olympiodorus 163
Appendix III:Charts Used by Paulus and Olympiodorus 164
Bibliography 169
Index 171


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