Marcus Manilius ( Latin: Marcus Manilius ; 1st century) is a Roman astrologer of the 1st century AD , author of one of the first surviving books on astrology , Astronomicon , written in poetic form. In honor of Mark Manilius named a crater on the moon .
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 "Astronomy"
- 3 Literature
- 3.1 List of works
- 3.2 Bibliography
Biography
No information about the life of Marcus Manilia has been preserved. There is an assumption that he was a freedman , because Guy Suetonius Tranquill mentions that the slave grammar of Staberius Eros was brought to Rome along with a certain Antiochus, received a free one at the same time with him and became known as Manilius Antiochus . However, this assumption is not supported by modern researchers.
Astronomy
From the poem itself, we can determine that it was written in the last years of the reign of Emperor Augustus and the first Tiberius . The system of astrological houses first appears in it. The poem was very popular in antiquity. The first print publication was issued by Regiomontan in Nuremberg in 1472. Alfred Edward Houseman worked on a 5-volume edition from 1903 to 1930.
Literature
List of works
- Marcus Manilius. Astronomy (Science of Horoscopes) / Proseich. per., entry and comm. E. M. Staerman. - M.: Publishing House of Moscow State University, 1993.
- Latin text .
Bibliography
- Manilius, Roman writer // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907. - T. XVIIIa. - S. 538.
- Saplin A. Yu. Manilii Mark // Astrological Encyclopedic Dictionary. - Tula— M .: Russian Historical Encyclopedia, Vneshsigma, 1994. - S. 264. - 476 p. - ISBN 5-87551-001-3 .
- Caseau, B. "Firmicus Maternus: Un astrologue converti au christianisme ou la rhetorique du rejet sans appel," in D. Tollet (ed), La religion que j'ai quittée (Paris, 2007), 39-63.
- Hermann M. "Metaforyka astralna w poezji rzymskiej" (Kraków, 2007).
- Habinek, T. "Probing the Entrails of the Universe: Astrology as bodily knowledge in Manilius' Astronomica," in Jason König and Tim Whitmarsh (eds), Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire (Cambridge, 2007), 229-240.
- Steven J. Green, Katharina Volk (ed.), “Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica” (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011).
- Volk, K. “Manilius and his Intellectual Background” (Oxford, 2009).