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Guerre et guerriers dans la Grèce antique
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ISBN: 2826400185 9782826400189 Year: 1985 Publisher: Fribourg Office du Livre


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Early greek warfare : horsemen and chariots in the homeric and archaic ages
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ISBN: 0521200563 9780521200561 Year: 1973 Publisher: London : Cambridge University Press,

Ancient Greek military practices
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ISBN: 0520025652 0520093852 0520037812 0520053796 0520073746 9780520093850 9780520037816 9780520025653 9780520053793 Year: 1971 Volume: 7 1 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,


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In the path of the moon : Babylonian celestial divination and its legacy
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ISSN: 15667952 ISBN: 1282786946 9786612786945 9004189610 9789004189614 9789004183896 9004183892 Year: 2010 Volume: 6 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Abstract

Celestial divination, in the form of omens from lunar, planetary, astral, and meteorological phenomena, was central to Mesopotamian cuneiform scholarship and science from the late second millennium BCE into the Hellenistic period. Beyond the boundaries of ancient Mesopotamia, the ideas, texts, and traditions of Babylonian celestial divination are traceable in Hellenistic sciences and philosophies. This collection of essays investigates features of Babylonian celestial divination with special focus on those aspects that influenced later Greco-Roman astronomy, astrology, and theories of signs. A multi-faceted collection of philological, historical, and philosophical investigations, In the Path of the Moon offers Assyriologists, Classicists, and historians of ancient science a wide-ranging series of studies unified around the theme of Babylonian celestial divination's legacy. 'The collected essays in this volume, successive steps in an ordered path, constitute an invaluable contribution to a better understanding of Babylonian divination.' Lorenzo Verderame, 'Sapienza' Università di Roma 'The reader interested in the multifaceted presentation of the problems related to the explanation of Babylonian celestial divination and well equipped with the knowledge of Akkadian will certainly be rewarded by the study of Rochberg’s latest publication.' Henryk Drawnel, SDB

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