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HellenisticAstronomy Brill’s Companions in Classical Studies Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/bccs Hellenistic Astronomy TheScienceinItsContexts Editedby AlanC.Bowen FrancescaRochberg LEIDEN | BOSTON TheLibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailableonlineathttp://catalog.loc.gov LCrecordavailableathttp://lccn.loc.gov/2019037130 TypefacefortheLatin,Greek,andCyrillicscripts:“Brill”.Seeanddownload:brill.com/brill‑typeface. ISSN1872-3357 ISBN978-90-04-24336-1(hardback) ISBN978-90-04-40056-6(e-book) Copyright2020byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillHes&DeGraaf,BrillNijhoff,BrillRodopi, BrillSense,HoteiPublishing,mentisVerlag,VerlagFerdinandSchöninghandWilhelmFinkVerlag. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedinaretrievalsystem, ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillNVprovided thattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter,222RosewoodDrive, Suite910,Danvers,MA01923,USA.Feesaresubjecttochange. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaperandproducedinasustainablemanner. Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Figures,Plates,andTables xviii Abbreviations xxiv ListofContributors xxvii 0 ProlegomenatotheStudyofHellenisticAstronomy 1 AlanC.BowenandFrancescaRochberg Part A TechnicalRequirements 1 TheCelestialSphere 9 ClemencyMontelle 2 MethodsofReckoningTime 24 RobertHannah QuantitativeTools 3.1 TechniquesofMeasurementandComputation 41 MathieuOssendrijver 3.2 PlanarandSphericalTrigonometry 54 GlenVanBrummelen Theoryof theSun,Moon,andPlanets 4.1 FundamentalsofPlanetaryTheory 63 NathanSidoli 4.2 HypothesisinGreco-RomanAstronomy 71 AlanC.Bowen 4.3 SomeEarlyHypothesesinGreco-RomanAstronomy 95 AlanC.Bowen vi contents 4.4 ThePtolemaicPlanetaryHypotheses 112 JamesC.Evans 4.5 TheHellenisticTheoryofEclipses 125 ClemencyMontelle 4.6 HellenisticBabylonianPlanetaryTheory 135 MathieuOssendrijver 4.7 TheBabylonianContributiontoGreco-RomanAstronomy 147 FrancescaRochberg 4.8 HellenisticEgyptianPlanetaryTheory 160 MicahT.Ross Part B Observations,Instruments,andIssues ObservationalFoundations 5.1 TheObservationalFoundationsofBabylonianAstronomy 171 LisBrack-Bernsen 5.2 ExperienceandObservationinHellenisticAstronomy 190 RichardL.Kremer AstronomicalInstruments 6.1 HellenisticSurveyingInstruments 221 TraceyE.Rihll 6.2 HellenisticMapsandListsofPlaces 232 KlausGeus 6.3 Star-ListsfromtheBabylonianstoPtolemy 240 GerdGraßhoff 6.4 Ptolemy’sInstruments 246 DennisW.Duke contents vii ThematicQuestions 7.1 IssuesinHellenisticEgyptianAstronomicalTexts 261 AnthonySpalinger 7.2 TheTextsandAimsofBabylonianAstronomy 272 HermannHunger 7.3 IssuesinGreco-RomanAstronomyoftheHellenisticPeriod 284 AlanC.Bowen Part C Contexts 8 TheProfessionalἀϲτρολόγοϲ 297 WolfgangHübner HellenisticAstronomyinPublicService 9.1 TheSundialandtheCalendar 323 RobertHannah 9.2 TheAntikytheraMechanism 340 JamesC.Evans 9.3 HellenisticAstronomyinMedicine 350 DorianGieselerGreenbaum HellenisticAstronomyinLiterature 10.1 AratusandthePopularizationofHellenisticAstronomy 383 StamatinaMastorakou 10.2 TheAuthorityoftheRomanHeavens 398 AlfredSchmid viii contents HellenisticAstronomyintheTrainingandWorkof Priests 11.1 HellenisticAstronomyandtheEgyptianPriest 411 AlexandravonLieven 11.2 HellenisticAstronomyandtheBabylonianScribalFamilies 426 MathieuOssendrijver AstralDivinationandNatalAstrology 12.1 TheHellenisticHoroscope 443 DorianGieselerGreenbaum 12.2 HellenisticBabylonianAstralDivinationandNativities 472 FrancescaRochberg 12.3 HellenisticHoroscopesinGreekandLatin:ContextsandUses 490 StephanHeilen 12.4 DemoticHoroscopes 509 MicahT.Ross TheologicalContexts 13.1 HellenisticAstronomyinEarlyJudaicWritings 529 JamesC.VanderKam 13.2 AstralDivinationintheDeadSeaScrolls 539 HelenR.Jacobus 13.3 HellenisticAstronomyinEarlyChristianities 551 NicolaDenzeyLewis 13.4 CosmologyinMandaeanTexts 572 SiamBhayro 13.5 AstralDiscourseinthePhilosophicalHermetica(Corpus Hermeticum) 580 ChristianWildberg contents ix HellenisticAstronomyinthePhilosophicalSchools 14.1 AstronomyandDivinationinStoicPhilosophy 607 GiuseppeCambiano 14.2 PlotinusontheMotionoftheStars 619 JamesWilberding HistoricalGlossaryofImportantTermsinHellenisticAstronomy 631 Bibliography 653 IndexofPassages 715 IndexofNames 726 IndexofSubjects 731