Manilius and His Intellectual Background

by Katharina Volk

This is the first English-language monograph on Marcus Manilius, a Roman poet of the first century AD, whose Astronomica is our earliest extant comprehensive treatment of astrology. Katharina Volk brings Manilius and his world alive for modern readers by exploring the manifold intellectual
traditions that have gone into shaping the Astronomica: ancient astronomy and cosmology, the history and practice of astrology, the historical and political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199265224
• ISBN13: 9780199265220
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages