TY - BOOK ID - 36153 TI - Melothesia in Babylonia. Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East AU - Judah Geller, Markham PY - 2014 SN - 9781614516934 9781614517757 9781614519348 DB - DOAB KW - astrology KW - medicine KW - magic KW - melothesia UR - https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:36153 AB - This book examines the Babylonian backgroundof melothesia, the science of charting zodiac influences on the human body, which transformed older divination by connecting astrology with medical techniques. Special attention is given to a text from late-5th-century Uruk, which is argued to be an important representative of this new approach to the healing arts, previously only known from Greek and medieval astrology. ER -