In episode 267, astrologer and scholar Levente László joins the show to talk about his new translation project for ancient Greek astrological texts and discuss some of the translations he’s done so far.
Levente is a Hungarian classical philologist who recently launched the Horoi Project, a crowdfunding project to translate ancient astrological texts from the Hellenistic and Byzantine astrological traditions:
https://www.patreon.com/horoiproject/
During the episode, we talk about four translations that Levente is working on recently and read a few excerpts from each of these texts.
The four texts discussed are 1) a work of definitions used in Hellenistic astrology by Porphyry of Athens and Antiochus, 2) a text on how to interpret a birth chart by Rhetorius of Egypt, 3) another text by Rhetorius on electoral astrology, and 4) some anecdotes about astrology by his 9th-century teacher, Abu Shad Khan.
A PDF of each translation discussed in this episode is being released today for free to coincide with this episode, and you can find links to each below.
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Download the texts discussed in this section
Levente has posted preliminary translations of each of the texts discussed in this episode, and you can download the PDFs below:
🪐 Porphyry, excerpts from the prologue of Antiochus
🪐 Ritorius, About the systematic interpretation of birthdays
Conversations with Shadkhan and Abu Mashar about the secrets of astrology
Shadhan text is only 1/3 completed but future updates will be sent to subscribers every two weeks. Clean Project page on Patreon.
Time signs
00:00:00 Introducing Levente and his translation project
00:17:12 Translation of Antiochus and Porphyry
01:22:20 Rhetorius on the stages of interpretation of the birth chart
01:49:04 Rhetorius on Initiations and Electoral Astrology
02:01:51 Shadon about the words of Abu Mashar
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