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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Pérez Jiménez, Aurelio, "La astrología en el siglo IV: Pablo de Alejandría", dins: Quiroga Puertas, Alberto J. (ed.), Ἱερὰ καὶ λόγοι: estudios de literatura y de religión en la Antigüedad tardía, Saragossa, Pórtico, 2011, pp. 281-314.
- Resum
- Fourth Century A.D. has had a key role in the transformation of the ancient Greco-Roman world because of Christianity's progress in the political arena. Paganism, persistently discredited in previous centuries by educated Christians familiar with Greek culture –such as Tatian, Clement of Alexandria, Hippolytus or Origenes-, was unable to oppose the new religion´s vigor, whose providentialist (like in the case of Platonism) prided itself in its ethics of free will. This was the more important reason for the Christian radical confrontation with astrology, which claimed authority after eight centuries of experimentation in Hellenism and which had managed to permeate into the Empire´s elites. Preceded by the edicts of Diocletian at the end of the 3rd Century against sorcerers, idolaters, and astrologers, Fourth Century AD witnessed the legal criminalization (which benefited from the conversion of Constantine) of astrology. Despite this, people still consults astrologers and magicians, makes horoscopes and writes astrological treaties. Astrological doctrines however took shelter in Gnosticism, and in some Christian heresies that borrowed part of its eschatology, and, above all, in the temples of astral divinities (Mithras, Isis, Osiris, Serapis) which will lose ground until the destruction of the Serapeum of Alexandria, including its excellent library. Symbolically this fact means the definitive triumph of a new culture based on the previous, but which will guide Rome into the way of the Middle Ages. In this context, Paulus of Alexandria writes the last original treatise on this topic of the ancient world; a treatise which, although accepting some principles formulated by Ptolemy in the Tetrabiblos, indeed means a return to traditional astrology, based on the Egyptians and Hermetism; this is the astrology with which maybe Paulo sided against the attacks to the alexandrian pagan gods.
- Matèries
- Astronomia i astrologia
Religió
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/37737469/_La_astrolog%C3%A ...
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