Ancient Greek
The story behind the ancient Greek astrology
If you are familiar with Oedipus Rex – poignant tragedy of ancient Greek playwright Sophocles destination, you have undoubtedly come across the Oracle at Delphi and has been witness to the prophecies which led to the downfall of a noble king and venerated land of Thebes.
Oracular cases were also found to recur in the plays of other authors such as Euripides and Aeschylus. All these go to show that the former Greeks had great faith in astrology.
The Story behind the ancient Greek astrology
Etymologically the word astrology has its roots in ancient Greece. Literally means the science of the stars. This is a branch of ancient philosophy or rather metaphysics, which dates from about three thousand years before the birth of Christ.
Babylonians (Chaldeans), the Sumerians, the people of Egypt and after a while, the people of China and India practice astrology. To this illustrious list, you can add the name of Greece (C.500 BC practiced by philosophers like Plato).
Identify major events an agricultural civilization – the course of rivers, flooding, deposition of fertile alluvial soil and the fruit / performance of the workforce of an entire race – was the main use of astrological forecasts were made.
The belief that celestial bodies have their influences on birth, death, life has been manufactured by the ancient Greeks. You can also give them credit for creating the idea that significant future events such as natural disasters (floods, earthquakes, pestilence, famine, etc.), political unrest and war can be predicted through astrological calculations.
The fragmentation of the instances of astral fatalism are also resort to early Greek philosophical practice. Pythagoras believed that every incident takes place in the present or has occurred in the past or will in the future at a particular time is pre-determined by the celestial or cosmic clock.
What takes place is pre-ordained. The whole world is surrounded by a destructive fire and burned to ashes after all the planets will resume their places of origin. This reorganization will result cosmic the emergence of the brave new world. The latter two have been respected the beliefs of the Stoics.
Philosophers before the era of Socrates, Xenophon, Anaximenes, Anaximander and Heraclides used to speculate on the nature and matter of celestial bodies as planets and stars.
Ancient Greek zodiac and Calendar
The ancient Greeks can be credited with the invention of a new sign of the Zodiac – LIBRA (HARMONY). The ancient Greek zodiac was initially divided into ten sections only. Later, a sign was divided in two – that is, Virgo and Scorpio Cadmus.
The university presented Samothrace priestly and Libra in the zodiac so now we have 12 signs. Each and every Greek city followed its own solar or lunar calendar or seasonal or stellar.
Astrology in Greece proper is denoted ASTROLOGY ASTRONOMY or not, but KATARKHE and APOTELESMA.
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