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La scrittura celeste: La nascita dell'astrologia in Mesopotamia

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I greci e i romani riconoscevano ai caldei di essere stati i grandi maestri della conoscenza e interpretazione dei movimenti astrali, dai quali loro stessi avevano appreso il segreto dei messaggi del cielo. I caldei ritenevano che vi fosse uno strettissimo rapporto tra cielo e terra, e che tutte le manifestazioni celesti prefigurassero avvenimenti terrestri. In questo volume vengono presentati i loro manuali di interpretazione dei movimenti astrali, le osservazioni celesti di oltre duemila anni prima di Cristo, i calendari mensili con i giorni fasti e quelli nefasti, gli oroscopi personali e parte della fitta corrispodenza tra i sovrani assiri e gli astrologi di corte.

418 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

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Giovanni Pettinato

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Giovanni Pettinato was a paleographer of writings from the ancient Near East, specializing in the Eblaite language. His major contributions to the field include the deciphering of the Eblaite script, discovered by P. Matthiae in 1974–75.
Pettinato graduated from Heidelberg in 1968, where he had studied for ten years. In 1968 he began teaching Assyriology at the University of Rome.
Pettinato died on May 19, 2011 at the age of 76. He was an emeritus of several associations, including the Accademia dei Lincei and authored several publications about the Sumerian and Mesopotamian civilizations.

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