The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

was his own invention, for Gilgamesh was a figure alien to the Greek and Roman world. More probably he had encountered a tale of ...

Dalley, Stephanie 1989. Myths from Mesopotamia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Foster, Benjamin R. (ed.) 2001. The Epic of Gil ...

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO MESOPOTAMIAN ASTRAL SCIENCE  David Brown CELESTIAL DIVINATION T he Sun, Moon, and Venus are identified as ...

Why celestial omens appear first in Old Babylonian sources may be a consequence only of selective survival of our sources. Brown ...

similar schemes, but also includes star lists and omens.^12 It is known from texts dating no earlier than the Neo-Assyrian perio ...

PREDICTIVE ASTRONOMY It is, thus, all the more remarkable that accurate predictions of ominous phenomena were eventually made, a ...

one zodiacal sign to the next, and various other phenomena, all for a given forthcoming year. Although the attested examples dat ...

to plot spatial intervals that are less than whole returns, some means of dividing up the great circle of the ecliptic was also ...

controversy. The periods of visibility at conjunction or opposition also depend on the varying length of day, the latitude of th ...

the mid-third century BC, employed rather more ad hoc methods, but more accurate parameters than System A (Britton and Walker 19 ...

So far as astrological thinking is concerned, it first became clear the extent to which the Greek zodiac descended from the cune ...

reveal that highly accurate astronomical systems had been devised in Babylonia that could be both logically consistent (e.g. the ...

and indirect in ETCSL 2. 1. 7 (Gudea Cylinders A and B) 134 f., and in ETCSL 4. 16. 1 (Hymn Nisaba A), and is perhaps very ancie ...

21 Barton 1994 : 23 – 31 , and for details on the cultural interactions in the astral sciences between Mesopotamia, India, Greec ...

Cunningham, G. ( 1997 ) ‘Deliver Me From Evil’, Mesopotamian Incantations 2500 – 1500 BC. Studia Pohl: Series Maior 17 , Rome: P ...

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE LATE BABYLONIAN INTELLECTUAL LIFE  Paul-Alain Beaulieu L ate Babylonian intellectual life is known from ...

surpassed him in popularity to become the most important god of the pantheon during the time of the Neo-Babylonian empire ( 626 ...

of literature promoting the royal ideology, such as theEpic of Gilgamesh, the Legend of Sargon, the Cuthean Legend of Nara ̄ m-S ...

liqinnû qabû “to learn” and liginnû sˇuqbû “to teach” convey the same idea. They mean literally “to recite excerpt tablets” and ...

the god of goldsmiths, but here we leave the world of intellectuals stricto sensuto enter the world of craftsmanship, although t ...