The Hellenistic Astrology Website
Promoting the study of the history, philosophy and techniques of ancient astrology
The question of Ptolemy’s preferred method of house division came up on the discussion forum on Skyscript recently. I said that I had always thought that Robert Schmidt did an adequate job in his translation of the Tetrabiblos in pointing out the instances in which Ptolemy clearly employed whole sign houses. I suggested that anyone [...]
A full translation of the Anthology of the 2nd century astrologer Vettius Valens was released online yesterday for free. The translator is a retired classics scholar named Mark Riley, who posted a PDF of the translation on his website (here is a direct link to the PDF). Riley’s name is familiar to those in the [...]
The glyphs or symbols that are commonly used by modern astrologers to represent the planets and signs of the zodiac were only firmly established in the Middle Ages. While there is evidence that some of these glyphs may have evolved out of certain symbols that were used during the late Hellenistic tradition, and some possibly [...]
Hello everyone. Chris Brennan here. It has been quite a while since I’ve done any updates to this blog, or to the Hellenistic Astrology Website in general for that matter, although I’m happy to announce that I will be returning to the project and redoubling my efforts in the near future. The first step is [...]
Meredith Garstin and I created a couple of YouTube videos in order to show members of our translation project how to setup their computers so that they can type words in ancient Greek on their keyboard. We created one video in order to show users how to setup their keyboards so that they can type [...]
Yesterday Laura Michetti submitted a rough translation of part of Rhetorius of Egypt’s chapter on the twelve places from the original Greek text. Aside from a paper that James Holden published a few years ago in the American Federation of Astrologers Journal which contained a translation of Rhetorius’ treatment of four of the places, as [...]
Today we launched the new wiki platform which will provide the technical basis for our cooperative translation project, and I am pleased to announce that we already have our first contribution to the translations project. Christopher Scott has translated the entirety of chapter 5 from book 9 of Vettius Valens’ Anthology, which is so far [...]
I launched www.HellenisticAstrology.com a few days ago, and although I’m still working on the rest of the site I thought that it would be a good idea to set up the blog. In this section we will have articles, news and updates about all things related to Hellenistic astrology. Stay tuned for articles from some [...]