The corpus of astrological material ascribed to the Egyptian priest Manetho consists of six books of poetry. This book serves as the companion to the one published by OUP in 2020, which was the first commentary in any language on the earliest three books of Manetho's poetry (two, three, and six as they appear in the manuscript). This volume supplies the remainder (books four, one, and five).
Manetho was credited with a series of didactic poems which list outcomes for planetary set-ups in a birth chart. The books covered in this volume are not as easily dated as those in the first volume, but the most recent is probably no later than the fourth century and they are still Egyptian. As in the first volume, their descriptions of the kinds of person who are born under happy and unhappy configurations of stars speak to the lived realities, aspirations, and fears of the astrologer's clientele. Unlike in the first volume, however, the individual books treated here have different authors, and there is more emphasis on profiling individual poets in terms of style, metre, and mannerisms. As in the first volume, there is a Greek text with English translation and an apparatus with parallel material to enable comparison with related works. But this volume pays more attention to the transmission of traditional material from one author to another, and to the special approach required
of an editor of material which, being in practical use, circulated in unstable and minutely-varying textual forms.
Author(s): J. L. Lightfoot
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 1159
City: Oxford
Cover
Pseudo-Manetho, Apotelesmatica Books Four, One, and Five: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Epigraph
Contents
Conventions and Citations
GLOSSARY OF ASTROLOGICAL TERMS
Abbreviations
Astrological
Other
Editions
1. Of ps.-Manetho
2. Of other Astronomical and Astrological Texts
3. Other Editions
Part One: The World of Astrology (Revisited)
1. Viewpoint
2. Character of the Value System
3. Élite and Mass
KINGS AND BIG MEN
MASS
4. Work
INTRODUCTION
LEXICOGRAPHY
DISTORTIONS AND BLIND SPOTS
Comparative Excursus: Manetho (and the Related Material in Ptolemy/Θ) and Firmicus
MENTAL STRUCTURES
Organising Principles
Values
INTERIM CONCLUSIONS
5. The Poor
6. Slaves
FURTHER COMPARISONS
Astrology and Oracles
Astrology and Dreams
7. Conclusions and Further Reflections
LETTERS
GAMES, SPECTACLES, ENTERTAINMENTS
SO WHAT ABOUT EGYPT?
MIDDLINGNESS?
Part Two: The Later Books of Manetho
The Later Books
1. COMPARANDA, COMMON SOURCES, UNDERLAY
Evidence from Types of Material Found within the Books of the Corpus
A Common Stock
Evidence from Order of Planets
Saturn . . . Mercury + luminaries
Qualitative
Pingree’s Epitomes: The Manethoniana and Antiochus/Rhetorius
Epit. II
Epit. III (Θ)
Conclusions
2. ORGANISATION OF SEQUENCES
Book 1
Book 5
3. INTERNAL PATTERNING
4. STYLISTIC MARKERS IN EACH POET
Asyndeton
Delayed Particles
Definite Article
Types and Moods of Clauses in the Protasis
Verbs in the Apodosis
Conclusions
5. ON THE PRESENTATION OF WORK
Book Four
4.1. PRELIMINARIES
4.2. THE ORIGINAL POEM: INFERENCES ABOUT SHAPE AND STRUCTURE
Proem and 4.107–9: Planets and Fixed Stars
4.109–69: Signs of Birth, or from the Place of Birth
4.170–End: Γενεαί and Τέχναι
4.3. PHONOLOGICA ET MORPHOLOGICA
Phonologica
α/η
ρρ/ρσ
ττ/σσ
Contractions
Vowel quantities
Morphologica
κεῖνος/ἐκεῖνος
Dative plural
Declension of Ares
i-stemaccusative plural
Forms of εἶναι
Conclusions
4.4. WORD-FORMATION
Parts of Speech
Nouns, other than Agent Nouns
Agent nouns and adjectives, substantival and adjectival
Adjectives
Verbs
Adverbs
Conclusions
4.5. SYNTAX
Particles
Asyndeton
Postponed Particles
Clusters
Definite Article
Third-Person Pronouns and Adjectives
Prepositions
Protasis
Apodosis
Other remarks
Nouns
Verbs
Number
Voice
Mood
Tense
Unusual Constructions
Adverbial Neuters Plural
4.6. STYLE
Composition
Verbiage
Use and Recycling of Earlier Poets
EGHP
Tragedy
Hellenistic Poetry
Other Astrological Poets
4.7. METRE
Outer Metric
Hexameter Schemes
Ratios and Percentages
Inner Metric
Caesurae
Word-Breakand the Second Foot
Bulloch’s Law
Hermann’s Bridge
Tiedke’s Law
Tetracola
Final Monosyllables
Prosody
Muta cum liquida
Hiatus
Crasis
Elision
Lengthening in Arsi of Syllables Closed with -ς or -ν
Summary and Obiter Dicta
4.8. NARRATOR AND ADDRESSEE
4.9. ASTROLOGICA
Characteristics of Mb’s Protases
Handling of Detail
Terminology, Style, and Mannerisms
Mb and Ma
Characteristics of Mb’s Apodoses: Combinatory Technique
Planetary Names and Epithets
Sun
Moon
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
4.10. THE RELATIONSHIP OF Mb AND Ma, AND OF EACH WITH Θ
Patterns of Correspondence
Register of Similarities
Protases
Apodoses
Register for Lib. Herm.
(i) Ma, Mb, Lib. Herm. all have a relationship
(ii) Ma ~ Lib. Herm./Mb
(iii) Mb, Ma/Lib. Herm.
(iv) Mb, Lib. Herm./Ma
Book One
1.1. PRELIMINARIES
1.2. THE COMPOSITE CHARACTER OF BOOK 1
Mb, Mc, and P.Oxy. 2546
Pentameters
A, B, C, D . . .
Conclusion
1.3. PHONOLOGICA ET MORPHOLOGICA
Phonologica
α/η
ρρ/ρσ
ἐς/εἰς
Contractions
Vowel quantities
Morphologica
αις, -αισι(ν), -ῃσι(ν)
Declension of Ares
Miscellanea
Forms of εἶναι
1.4. SYNTAX
Particles
Αsyndeton
Postponed particles
Clusters
Definite Article
Third-PersonPronouns and Adjectives
Prepositions
Anastrophe
Tmesis
Expressions for ‘with’
ἐν
Verbs
Protasis
Apodosis
Negations
1.5. STYLE
Use and Recycling of Earlier Poets
Connections with Ma (in Apodoses)
Hapax and Proton Legomena
Composition
1.6. METRE
Outer Metric
Hexameter Schemes
Ratios and Percentages
Inner Metric
Caesurae
Word-Breakand the Second Foot
Bulloch’s Law
Hermann’s Bridge
Tiedke’s Law
Tetracola
Final Monosyllables
Prosody
Muta cum Liquida
Hiatus
Elision
Lengthening
Summary and Final Implications
1.7. NARRATOR AND ADDRESSEE
1.8. ASTROLOGICA
Treatment of Technical Terms
Charts Involving the Malefics and a Phase of the Moon
Planetary Names and Epithets
Sun
Moon
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Book Five
5.1. PRELIMINARIES
5.2. MULTIPLE AUTHORSHIP?
Correspondences
Found throughout the Book
Connecting Good and Bad Stars with Later Material
Connecting τέχναι with Later Material
Connecting Long Discursive Charts with Other Material
Connecting τέχναι with Long Discursive Charts
Connecting Good and Bad Stars, τέχναι, and Long Discursive Charts
Other Correspondences
Within the Good and Bad Stars
Within the Long Discursive Charts
Conclusions
5.3. PHONOLOGICA ET MORPHOLOGICA
Phonologica
α/η
ἐς/εἰς
ττ/σσ
Contractions
Vowel Quantities
Morphologica
ἐκεῖνος/κεῖνος
-αις, -αισι(ν), -ῃσι(ν)
ἀστράσι, ἄστροις
Declension of Ares
Forms of εἶναι
Verb Endings
5.4. SYNTAX
Particles
Asyndeton
Postponed Particles
Clusters
Definite Article
Third-Person Pronouns and Adjectives
Prepositions
Anastrophe
Tmesis
Expressions for ‘with’
ἐν
Other
Verbs
Protasis
Apodosis
Negations
5.5. STYLE
Use and Recycling of Earlier Poets
Composition
5.6. METRE
Outer Metric
Hexameter Schemes
Ratios and Percentages
Inner Metric
Caesurae
Word-Break and the Second Foot
Bulloch’s Law
Hermann’s Bridge
Tiedke’s Law
Tetracola
Final Monosyllables
Prosody
Muta cum liquida
Hiatus
Crasis and Synizesis
Elision
Lengthening in Arsi of Syllables Closed with -ς or -ν
Other
Summary
5.7. NARRATOR AND ADDRESSEE
5.8. ASTROLOGICA
Treatment of Technical Terms
Planetary Names and Epithets
Sun
Moon
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Addenda
1. PINAX OF Θ AGAINST MANETHO (Ma, Mb, Mc, Md)
2. PINAX OF ANUBION AGAINST MANETHO, FIRMICUS
3. METRE OVERVIEW
Outer Metric
Dactyls to Spondees
Percentages of Lines with n Number of Dactylic Feet
Percentages of Spondaic Feet by Position in Line
Distribution of Metra in Line by Numbers of Dactyls in Line
Location of Successive Spondees (as % of All Lines)
Inner Metric
Types of Caesura (as % of All Caesurae)
Word-Break in the Second Foot (as % of All Lines)
Bulloch’s Law (% of Lines Affected)
Hermann’s Bridge (as % of All Lines)
Tiedke’s Law
Tetracola (as % of All Lines)
Prosody
Muta cum liquida
Hiatus in Princeps per n Lines
Vowels in Hiatus in Princeps (as % of all Hiatus)
Elision: Frequency
Elision: Location in the Line (as % of All Elisions)
Note on Metrical Licence
Prosody
Inner Metric
4. PLANETARY RANK ORDERS
Part Three: Text
The Text of the Later Books
PALAEOGRAPHICAL NOTES
THE EDITOR’S PROBLEM
Stemma
Evaluating the Quality of Readings
Conclusion
REGISTER OF DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TEXTS OF LIGHTFOOT AND DE STEFANI
SIGLA
Μανέθωνος Ἀποτελεσματικῶν Βιβλία Δ΄, Α΄, Ε΄
Βιβλίον Δ΄
Book Four
Βιβλίον Αʹ
Book One
Βιβλίον Εʹ
Book Five
Part Four: Commentary
Book Four
4.1–13 Proem
4.14–109 Kentrothesiai
4.14–34 Saturn
4.35–43 Jupiter
4.44–52 Mars
4.53–68 Venus
4.69–76 Mercury
4.77–92 Moon
4.93–106 Sun
4.107–9 Transition
4.110–69 ‘Signs of Birth’
4.110–20 Charts Involving Kentra
4.121–64 Mostly Πρᾶξις Charts
4.165–9 Transition
4.170–end Γενεαί and τέχναι
4.170–346 Sequence of Mainly τ- Charts
4.347–65 Group on Harms
4.366–413 Group on Nurture and Parentage
4.414–49 More τέχναι
4.450–90 Miscellanea
4.491–507 More Kentrothesiai
4.508–36 Luminaries in Gendered Signs
4.537–59 New and Full Moon
4.560–92 Aspects Across Kentra
4.593–626 Miscellanea
Book One
1.1–15 + 16–17 Proem
1.18–361 The Book Proper
1.18–25 Charts Involving Venus
1.26–33 Luminaries in Places of Gender
1.34–44 Three Mars-Related Charts?
1.45–138 Miscellanea
1.139–52 Schetliasmos of Mars
1.153–95 Miscellanea
1.196–207 Protreptic
1.208–76 Miscellanea
1.277–80 + 281–3 + 284–5 Royal Charts
1.286–326 Τέχναι
1.327–33 + 334–8 Parents
1.339–58 Miscellanea
1.359–61 Sign-Off
Book Five
5.1–26 Introduction
5.1–24 Proem
1–11 To Ptolemy
12–24 Sayings of Homer
5.25–6 Words and Thought
5.27–340 Charts
5.27–43 Miscellanea
29–34 Seven Planets
35–8
39–43
5.44–129 Good and Bad Stars
44–7
62–5
66–8
69–71
72–3
74–7
78–80
81–3
84–99
84–9
+ 90–2
93–9
100–2
103–4
105–7
108
109–29
109–10
111
112
113–14
115–19
120–6 + 127–9
120–6
127–9
5.130–6 Compilation on Mars’ Oppositions
130–1
132–3
134–5
136
5.137–88 The Περὶ μίμων Sequence (from Θ pp. 217.5–218.8)
137–41 + 142–3
144–7 + 148
149–53
154–8
165–8
169–72
173–6
177–80
181–8
5.189–312 Miscellanea
189–91
192–6
197–201
202–8
209–16
217–21
222–4
225–42
243–5
246–51
252–5
256–9
260–73
274–81
274–7
278–9
280–1
282–3
284–99
300–6 + 307–12
5.313–40 Charts Specifically for Women
316–19
320–3
324–5
326–31
332–40
Epimetrum
Appendices
APPENDIX I: Pinakes
APPENDIX II: Roster of Trades
I. The Land
II. Manual Work
III. Commerce
IV. Documents, Writing, Lettered Professions
V. Technical Specialisms
VI. Leisure
VII. Service Sector
VIII. Military
Addenda and Corrigenda to the First Volume
Bibliography
Index of Passages Discussed
Index of Greek Words
General Index
