| #260700 in Books | 1977-01-01 | 1977-01-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.00 x1.00 x4.00l,.73 | File type: PDF | 528 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Customer|Great solitude|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By coreywear|Lovely book|7 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Who doesn't love five books worth of intergalactic poetry?|By Author Joe Holt|This book is definitel||Perhaps the most ingenious...of Latin poets [is here translated by] a distinguished Latinist, deeply versed in celestial lore...[Manilius] is faithfully conveyed in a style both lucid and elegant. (D. R. Shackleton Bailey Classical Philology)|
Marcus Manilius, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, is the author of the earliest treatise on astrology we possess. His Astronomica, a Latin didactic poem in five books, begins with an account of celestial phenomena, and then proceeds to treat of the signs of the zodiac and the twelve temples; there follow instructions for calculating the horoscoping degree, and details of chronocrators, decans, injurious degrees, zodiacal geography, paranatello...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Manilius: Astronomica (Loeb Classical Library No. 469) (English and Latin Edition) | Manilius. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
