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Vettius Valens of Antioch: An Intellectual Monography
Description: softcover, 479 pp. (15x21 cm)
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615g.
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Joanna Komorowska, Vettius Valens of Antioch: An Intellectual Monography, Krakow 2004
Introduction
Part One
1. Valens of Antioch: the Author of the Anthologiae...
2. ...the Second-Century Alexandria
Part Two
3. Reader's Nightmare: Anthologiarum libri novem
Introduction
Book One: The Introduction
Book Two: The Ecliptic
Book Three: The Quicksand
Book Four: Into the Deep
Book Five: Searching for the Principle
Book Six: The Riddle
Book Seven: The Whole?
Book Eight: The Unity of Subject
Book Nine: The Mystery
Conclusions
Appendix One: Conjecturing the Missing Proem
Appendix Two: 12 and the Missing Stars
Appendix Three: 12 and the Missing Lands
Table: Lands vs. Zodiacal Signs
Part Three: Hermetic Revelation: The Pride of Vettius Va Introduction
4. The Sources
5. The Tension Within
6. For It Is Me
7. The Oaths of Secrecy
Appendix One: The Travel to Egypt
Appendix Two: Additional Case Study: Artemidorus' Oniro critica
General Conclusions
Part Four
8. Cleanthes' Dog: Valens on Fate and Human Soul
Imperial Stoa
Manilius'Chant Four
Hermes on Human Destiny
Vettius Valens
The Question of Providence
Return to Destiny
Valens and the Ethical Question: Part One
Valens and the Soul: in Orpheus' Footsteps?
Valens and the Ethical Question: Part Two
The Issue of summum bonum
Looking Back at V 6: the Conclusion
Valens' Doctrine of Fate and Predestination: Final Notes
Appendix One: The Bridle of Nemesis
Appendix Two: Valens vs. Manilius
Appendix Three: Vettius' Daimon
Appendix Four: Twins and the Shipwreck
9. Valens' Understanding of the Universe: Several Impor tant Issues
One: The Godhead
Two: Matter and its Influence: The Question of Dualism
Three: The Long Shadow of Plato
10. Philosophical Affinities of Valens: Conclusion
Part Five
11. Astrological Practice and the Horoscopic papyri
12. Final Conclusions
Bibliography
Index locorum
Index auctorum antiquiorum
Termini technici quibus saepius fruimur
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