Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41955-0 — Between Greece and Babylonia Kathryn Stevens Index More Information INDEX Abnu Šikinšu, 273–4 Antimenidas, brother of Alcaeus, 16 Adapa, 98n.12, 99 Antioch on the Orontes, 28, 244, 246 Aḫ’ûtu family, Uruk, 226–7, 320, 324–6 in Akkadian texts, 256n.6, 259–60, 290, Akesines river, 286–7, 301, 309 293, 297, 306 akītu festival, 224, 321 library at, 164 Akkadian language, 4 Antiochus Cylinder, from Borsippa, 26, disappearance of, 370–1 198, 220–3, 251, 258 loan-words into Greek, 17 Antiochus I of Commagene, 72 transcriptions in Greek alphabet, 56–7, Antiochus I Soter 95, 117–19, 268. See also and Berossus, 114–17, 270 Graeco-Babyloniaca land grants in Babylonia, 358 usage in Hellenistic Babylonia, 25 patronage of Babylonian culture, 198, Alexander Balas, 206, 208, 244 220–4, 361–2 Alexander of Aetolia, 205 patronage of Greek intellectual culture, Alexander Polyhistor, 96, 106, 163 206–7, 214, 244, 247 Alexander the Great, 233, 283, 287 Antiochus II Theos, 116, 155, 201, 325, interactions with Chaldaeans, 86, 358 229–31 Antiochus III Megas, 227, 366 Alexandria, 27 patronage of Babylonian culture, 224–5 astrology at, 86 patronage of Greek intellectual culture, astronomy at, 86, 145 206, 242, 244, 246 Library and Museum. See Library of Antiochus VIII Epiphanes, 216 Alexandria; Museum of Alexandria Antiochus IX Eusebes Cyzicenus, 212 Almanacs, 49, 370, 378 antiscion, 72 ammatu. See cubit Anu (god), 321, 323, 326, 352, 354, Amurru, 264 378 Anaxandridas of Delphi, 335–6, 342 elevation in Uruk pantheon, 331, 364 Anaximander of Miletus, 255 in Uruk Chronicle, 356–7, 363 Antagoras of Rhodes, 198, 205, 207, 210, Anu-aba-utēr, member of the Sîn-lēqi- 213, 250 unninni family, 36, 65, 323 Antigonus I Monophthalmos, 204, 240, Anu-aḫa-ušabši, member of the Aḫ’ûtu 244, 287 family, 4–5, 58n.88, 320–3, 351 Antigonus II Gonatas, 155, 207–10 Anu-bēlšunu, member of the Sîn-lēqi- patronage of Greek intellectual culture, unninni family, 323 198, 201, 205, 240–1, 244, 247 Anu-uballiṭ/Kephalon, member of the royal tutors, 211 Aḫ’ûtu family, 227, 324–5, 359n.138 student in Athens, 212 Anu-uballiṭ/Nikarchos, member of the Antigonus III Doson, 205, 244 Aḫ’ûtu family, 226–7, 324–5, Antigonus of Carystus, 203 359n.138, 368 Antikythera Mechanism, 53–4 apkallū, 98–9, 183n.153, 264 432 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41955-0 — Between Greece and Babylonia Kathryn Stevens Index More Information Index Apollodorus of Athens, 161–2, 214 Aššurbanipal (Aššur-bān-apli), king of Apollonius of Citium, 214 Assyria, 181–2, 217, 264, 304 Apollonius of Perge, 214 library of. See Library of Aššurbanipal Apollonius of Rhodes, 211, 243, Assyria, 23, 27, 271 262n.25, 342 intellectual life. See intellectual patron- Apsû, 255n.2 age, royal; libraries, Mesopotamian; Arabia, Arabs scholarship, cuneiform in Aristotle, 283, 299–300 astrologia, 37, 66, 69, See also astrology, in Berossus, 270 Graeco-Roman in Hellenistic cuneiform texts, 312 astrology, Graeco-Roman in Sudines, 275 borrowings from Mesopotamian in Theophrastus, 283, 287, 300–1 astrology, 69–88 Aramaic language, 4, 126, 129, 132, conceptual underpinnings, 66–9 234, 367 relationship to astronomy, 36–8, 60 influence on Akkadian, 127 astrology, Mesopotamian loss of sources in, 23, 27 at Neo-Assyrian court, 62 Aratus of Soli conceptual underpinnings, 61, 64, 66–9 at Antigonid court, 205 cross-cultural transmission, 35, 38–9, 61, at Seleucid court, 206, 214 69, 88 knowledge of the zodiac, 40 Greek influence on, 90–1 Arcesilaus of Pitane, 204 omen-based, 61–2, 65–6, 69–71. See Ariarathes V of Cappadocia, 212 also Enūma Anu Enlil Aristarchus of Samos, 54n.70, 86, 89n.206 relationship to astronomy, 36–8, 50, Aristarchus of Samothrace, 162, 211 60, 63–4 Aristoboulos of Alexandria, 157 reputation in Classical world, 35 Aristophanes of Byzantium, 203, 209 zodiacal, 62–6 Aristotle of Chalkis, 337, 342 astrology, Roman, 87 Aristotle of Stageira, 28 astronomia, 37, 109, See also astronomy, De Caelo date, 40 Greek Historia Animalium, 161, 279–88, Astronomical Diaries 299–300 astronomical data in, 43, 45, 49 knowledge of the east, 279–88, 299–300 Babylon-centrism, 288 library, 151–2, 165–6 geography, 257–60, 279, 288–97, 305–7 on Babylonian celestial expertise, 18, Seleucid kings in, 228–9 33–4, 40–1 astronomy, Babylonian. See also Armenia Almanacs; auxiliary tables; ephemer- in Akkadian texts, 297, 312 ides; Goal-Year Texts; procedure texts Arsinoe II, 209 arithmetical nature of, 49 Artemis (goddess), 337, 366 cross-cultural transmission, 38–9, 45, ascendant. See horoskopos 55–60 Asia Greek influence on, 88–9 in Aristotle, 281, 286–8, 299–300, 302 local differences in, 329 in Berossus, 270 mathematical, 49–50, 56–7, in Theophrastus, 283–7, 300–3 111–13 āšipu, āšipūtu, 184, 320–2, 324, 328, 378 nonmathematical, 48–9 Aśoka Maurya, 154–6 observational, 34, 42–4 edicts as evidence for spread of predictive, 47–50, 54 Buddhism, 156 relationship to astrology, 36–8, 50, aspect (astrology), 81 60, 63–4 433 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41955-0 — Between Greece and Babylonia Kathryn Stevens Index More Information Index astronomy, Greek and Greek scholarship, 102–7, 271–3 borrowings from Babylonia, 34, 39–47, as Babylonian priest, 95–6, 114–15, 117 50–60 as local historian, 347–8 kinematic nature of, 50, 52 astronomical fragments, 109–14 pre-Hellenistic, 39–41 correction of Greek misconceptions, relationship to astrology, 36–8, 60 102, 271 Athana Lindia (goddess), 338, 343, 355–6 geography of, 267–73 Athens, 28, 193, 238, 242, 244 identification as Bēl-rē’ûšunu, 117–19 as Hellenistic intellectual centre, 3, later reputation for astrology, 109, 111 204, 212 period of activity, 96 pre-Hellenistic evidence for stichome- possible reception in Alexandria, 160–2 try, 187 possible reception in Pergamon, 162–3 statue of Berossus in, 110 relationship to Seleucid court, 108, Attalus I Soter, 201, 204, 211, 232–3 115–17 Attalus II Philadelphus, 162, 203–4, transmission of Babyloniaca, 96, 211–12, 214 105, 112 Attalus III Philometor, 211 Beyond-the-river, satrapy Autolycus of Pitane in Akkadian texts, 293, 313 knowledge of the zodiac, 46 Bindusara Maurya, 206–7 auxiliary tables, astronomical, 50 bītniṣirti, 74–7 Biton of Pergamon, 214 Babylon Book of Sothis, 160 Greek knowledge and perceptions of, Borsippa, 26, 198, 358 257, 286 Antiochus I at, 198, 220–4 intellectual life. See scholarship, cuneiform scholarship in, 128, 327 cuneiform; astrology, Mesopotamian; in Astronomical Diaries and astronomy, Babylonian; geography, Chronicles, 313 intellectual; historiography, local in Berossus, 271 Babylonia, 23 Letters between Aššurbanipal and scho- Greek knowledge and perceptions of, lars of Borsippa, 176, 189–90 256–7, 271–2, 286, 301 Buddhist texts Hellenisation, 25. See also Graeco- in Library of Alexandria, 153–6 Babyloniaca Hellenistic sources, 23–7 Calendar Texts, 80 in Parthian period, 132, 134, 293–7, 307 Callimachus of Cyrene, 372 intellectual life. See scholarship, Pinakes, 185–6 cuneiform relationship to Ptolemaic court, 202, 242 Babylonian World Map, 259–61, 305 Carmania Bactra, 272, 286 in Berossus, 100, 270 Bactria in Sudines, 275 Greek texts from, 139 in Theophrastus, 283 in Akkadian texts, 290, 306, 313 Carneades of Cyrene in Aristotle, 286, 299–300, 309 tutor of Ariarathes V and Attalus II, 212 in Theophrastus, 300–1, 309 Cassander, 204, 238 Bād-tibira, 271 Chaldaeans Beqa’a Valley, 287 and Hellenistic kings, 86–7, 229–36 Berossus, 25, 95–120, 192 celestial expertise of, 33–5, 38, 51, 55–6. and Babylonian scholarship, 97–101, See also astrology, Mesopotamian; 106–7 astronomy, Babylonian 434 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-41955-0 — Between Greece and Babylonia Kathryn Stevens Index More Information Index Chronicles, Babylonian. See also Uruk Cyrus Cylinder, 219 Chronicle; historiography, local in Berossus, 100 as sources for Berossus, 100–1, 106–7 generic classification, 352 Damascus, 272–3, 283, 286 geography, 257–60, 279, 288–97, 305–7 decans, 77, 87 Hellenistic kings in, 228–9, 306 degree (unit of celestial measure- Chrysippus of Soli ment), 46–7 invited to Ptolemaic court, 202 Delos, 4, 28, 212, 333–6, 343 possible knowledge of Babylonian birth Delphi, 28, 335–6, 342–3 omens, 72 Demetrius I Soter, 212 Cicero Demetrius of Phaleron, 147–9, 238–9, on Babylonian astrology, 34, 71 243 Cleanthes of Assos, 202 Demetrius Poliorcetes, 350 Clement of Alexandria, 157 Diodorus Siculus Cleostratus of Tenedos, 39 cross-cultural comparisons, 18, 20–1 Coele Syria on Chaldaean celestial expertise, 34, 67, in Berossus, 105, 270 70, 84, 86, 87 in Theophrastus, 287, 303 on Chaldaeans, 18, 20–1, 229 constellations on Greek scholars at Hellenistic courts, as bītniṣirti, 75 204, 240 Greek borrowings from Mesopotamia, Diogenes of Seleucia, 206 39–40 divination, celestial. See astrology in astrological geography, 65 dodekatemoria, 79–80, 85, 88, 379, See in astrological medicine, 83 also microzodiac linked to zones of the liver, 232n.103 Dorotheus of Sidon, 77, 79 Lock of Berenice, 86 Dynastic Prophecy, 100, 107 zodiacal, 40, 46, 73, 382 Craterus of Antioch, 212 Ea (god), 183 Crates of Mallos Eanna temple, Uruk, 320, 327n.29, 331n.46 at Attalid court, 203 Eber-nāri. See Beyond-the-river interest in Chaldaeans, 162 Ecbatana, 272 cross-cultural connections eclipses Greek world and Babylonia Greek use of Babylonian data and meth- ancient approaches to, 17–18, 21 ods, 41–5, 53–4 modern historiography of, 9, 16–22 observation in Babylonia, 42–3 through borrowing and influence, ominous significance, 42, 70–1 16–20, 33–195, 267–76 prediction of, 53–4 through comparativism, 20–2 ecliptic, 46, 53, 74–5, 79–80, 379 through structural similarity, 2, 16, 22, Egypt, 55, 217 30–2, 196–4, 276–377 as land of thaumata, 300 Ctesias in Akkadian texts, 258, 266, 293, 297 as source for Aristotle, 287–8, 300 in Aristotle, 286, 300 cubit (unit of celestial measurement), 45–6 in Berossus, 270 cuneiform script, 25, 131, 370–1, 379.