The History behind Ancient Greek Astrology
If you are acquainted with OEDIPUS TYRANNUS – celebrated ancient Greek playwright Sophocles’ poignant tragedy of destiny, you have surely come across the ORACLE OF DELPHI and been witness to the prophecies which brought about the downfall of a noble and venerated king of the land of Thebes. Oracular instances are also found to recur in the dramas of other playwrights like Euripides and Aeschylus. All these go on to prove that the ancient Greeks had a lot of faith in astrology. The History behind Ancient Greek Astrology The word astrology’s etymological source has its roots in ancient Greece. It literally means SCIENCE of the stars. This is a branch of ancient philosophy or rather metaphysics, which dates back to approximately three thousand years before the birth of Christ. Babylonians (CHALDEANS), Sumerians, the people of Egypt and a little late organic skin care r, people of China and India practiced astrology. To this illustrious list, one may add the name of Greece (c.500 B.C. practiced by philosophers like Plato). Determining an agricultural civilization’s most important events – the course of rivers, floods, deposition of fertile alluvial soil and the fruits/yield of the labor of a whole race – was the chief use to which astrological forecasts were put. The belief that celestial entities have their influences on childbirth, death, life was manufactured by the ancient Greeks. You can also accord them the credit of creating the idea that significant future events like natural calamities (flood, earthquake, plague, famine etc), political turmoil and war can be predicted through astrological calculations. Fragmented instances of astral fatalism are also found to recur in early Greek philosophical practice.
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