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Hardcover:
9783110311815 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, November 30, 2013, cover price $182.00
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9780816070374 | Facts on File, September 1, 2012, cover price $375.00
A Brief History of Ancient Astrology explores the theory and practice of astrology from Babylon to Ancient Greece and Rome and its cultural and political impact on ancient societies. Discusses the union between early astrology and astronomy, in contrast to the modern dichotomy between science and superstition. Explains the ancient understanding of the zodiac and its twelve signs, the seven planets, and the fixed circle of 'places' against which the signs and planets revolve. Demonstrates how to construct and interpret a horoscope in the ancient manner, using original ancient horoscopes and handbooks. Considers the relevance of ancient astrology today.
Hardcover:
9781405110877, titled "Brief History of Ancient Astrology" | 1 edition (Blackwell Pub, November 17, 2006), cover price $115.95 | About this edition: A Brief History of Ancient Astrology explores the theory and practice of astrology from Babylon to Ancient Greece and Rome and its cultural and political impact on ancient societies.
Paperback:
9781405110747 | Blackwell Pub, November 17, 2006, cover price $37.95
Miscellaneous:
9780470775370 | Blackwell Pub, April 15, 2008, cover price $89.95
Miscellaneous:
9780470773772 | Onl edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, February 25, 2008), cover price $100.00
This volume is a study of the religious system of Mithraism, one of the "mystery cults" popular in the Roman Empire contemporary with early Christianity. Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life. He employs the methods of anthropology of religion and the new cognitive science of religion to explore in detail the semiotics of the Mysteries' astral symbolism, which has been the principal subject of his many previous publications on the cult.
Hardcover:
9780198140894 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 9, 2006, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: This volume is a study of the religious system of Mithraism, one of the "mystery cults" popular in the Roman Empire contemporary with early Christianity.
Paperback:
9780199216130 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 17, 2007, cover price $62.00
Hardcover:
9780754640813 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, December 30, 2004, cover price $149.95
Hardcover:
9780813315317 | Westview Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $22.00
9780813315300 | Westview Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $65.00
Paperback:
9789004084506 | Brill Academic Pub, June 1, 1988, cover price $24.00
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