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Contents
Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction ix
1. Distant Echoes: Origins of Astrology 1
2. Prehistory: Myths and Megaliths 15
3. The Mesopotamian Cosmos: The Marriage of Heaven and Earth 35
4. Mesopotamian Astrology: The Writing of Heaven 51
5. The Assyrians and Persians: Revolution and Reformation 69
6. Egypt: The Kingdom of the Sun 87
7. Egypt: The Stars and the Soul 99
8. The Hebrews: Prophets and Planets 109
9. Greece: Homer, Hesiod and the Heavens 127
10. Greece: The Platonic Revolution 149
11. The Hellenistic World: The Zodiac 173
12. The Hellenistic World: Scepticism and Salvation 185
13. Hellenistic Astrology: Signs and Influences 203
14. Rome: The State, the Stars and Subversion 225
15. Christianity: A Star out of Jacob 245
16. Rome: The Imperial Heaven 257
17. Christianity: The Triumph of the Sun 267
Afterword: Decline and Survival 291
Notes 295
Bibliography 353
Index 379