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Introduction (Eisagogika), with the later commentary attributed to Olympiodorus

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Known · Attestedin Alexandria?Conjectured · Our reconstructionour placement

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I · The entry, in his form

In the table of Mathematics (incl. astronomy)

Conjectured · Our reconstructionour placement

Paulus Alexandrinus

Introduction (Eisagogika), with the later commentary attributed to Olympiodorus

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Opening words not preserved.

Length: not counted

Above, his entry form, filled from what we know. Below, ours.

II · Does it survive? Where to read it

Survives whole

Was it in Alexandria?

Known · Attested

Written in Alexandria.

On the table: written in Alexandria; no evidence it was in the Library.

Read it today

English translation with Olympiodorus's commentary in Greenbaum (2001).

III · In the show

The Thema Mundi and Planetary Rulerships, episode 36, at 49 secondsTranscriptThe Thema Mundi and planetary rulerships (station 2 of Astrology and Cosmic Order).Known: probable
Chaldean Order, Luminaries, and Planetary Houses, episode 36, at 7 minutes 14 secondsTranscriptThe Chaldean order, the luminaries and the planetary houses.Known: probable
Priest-Astronomers & Early Astrology, episode 20, at 14 minutes 11 secondsTranscriptPriest-astronomers and early astrology (station 1 of Astrology and Cosmic Order).Known: probable

+ 15 more

Theurgic Astrology & Natal Charts, episode 22, at 58 minutes 44 secondsTranscriptTheurgic astrology.Known: probable
The Thema Mundi and Planetary Rulerships, episode 36, at 1 minute 28 secondsTranscript“much like Vidius Valins and those early kind of Greco Roman Egyptian”'Vidius Valins' is Vettius Valens, whose Anthology leans on Egyptian authorities.Known: probable
Hellenistic Roots of Western Esotericism, episode 24, at 1 hour 4 minutes 40 secondsTranscript“his book, Henistic Astrology, I think came out in 2017”Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology (2017).Known: probable
Path: Astrology and Cosmic Order, station 1Start with the priest-astronomers.Known: probable
Path: Astrology and Cosmic Order, station 2Draw the birth chart of the world.Known: probable
Path: Astrology and Cosmic Order, station 5Use the chart as a map.Known: probable
Astrology · Chronology: The Hellenistic synthesisThe Hellenistic synthesis.Known: probable
Astrology · Chronology: Ptolemy's TetrabiblosPtolemy's Tetrabiblos.Known: probable
Astrology · The Atlas: houses, aspects, dignitiesKnown: probable
Western Esotericism · The Map of the Current: Hellenistic astrology in Greco-Roman EgyptKnown: probable
Decan Calculator'Egyptian in origin… Hellenistic and later Arabic astrology absorbed the scheme.'Known: probable
Planetary Day'The seven-day week of planetary days is Hellenistic'; Cassius Dio 37.18–19.Known: probable
Planetary HoursSeasonal hours and the Chaldean order.Known: probable
Zodiacal HoursPtolemy, Almagest II.Known: probable
Fixed StarsPtolemy, Tetrabiblos I.9.Known: probable

IV · Sources and the living entry

Ancient references

Paulus Alexandrinus, Introduction (the dated example of 378 CE)

Modern scholarship (2)

D. G. Greenbaum, Late Classical Astrology: Paulus Alexandrinus and Olympiodorus (Reston, VA: ARHAT, 2001).
T. Barton, Ancient Astrology (London: Routledge, 1994).

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