Preface Acknowledgments List of Illustrations and Tables List of Abbreviations 0 Prolegomena to the Study of Hellenistic Astronomy  Alan C. Bowen and Francesca Rochberg Part A Technical Requirements 1 The Celestial Sphere  Clemency Montelle 2 Methods of Reckoning Time  Robert Hannah Chapter 3 Quantitative Tools 3.1 Techniques of Measurement and Computation  Mathieu Ossendrijver 3.2 Planar and Spherical Trigonometry  Glen Van Brummelen Chapter 4 Theory of the Sun, Moon, and Planets 4.1 Fundamentals of Planetary Theory  Nathan Sidoli 4.2 Hypothesis in Greco-Roman Astronomy  Alan C. Bowen 4.3 Some Early Hypotheses in Greco-Roman Astronomy  Alan C. Bowen 4.4 The Ptolemaic Planetary Hypotheses  James C. Evans 4.5 The Hellenistic Theory of Eclipses  Clemency Montelle 4.6 Hellenistic Babylonian Planetary Theory  Mathieu Ossendrijver 4.7 The Babylonian Contribution to Greco-Roman Astronomy  Francesca Rochberg 4.8 Hellenistic Egyptian Planetary Theory  Micah T. Ross Part B Observations, Instruments, and Issues Chapter 5 Observational Foundations 5.1 The Observational Foundations of Babylonian Astronomy  Lis Brack-Bernsen 5.2 Experience and Observation in Hellenistic Astronomy  Richard L. Kremer Chapter 6 Astronomical Instruments 6.1 Hellenistic Surveying Instruments  Tracey E. Rihll 6.2 Hellenistic Maps and Lists of Places  Klaus Geus 6.3 Star-Lists from the Babylonians to Ptolemy  Gerd Graßhoff 6.4 Ptolemy’s Instruments  Dennis W. Duke Chapter 7 Thematic Questions 7.1 Issues in Hellenistic Egyptian Astronomical Writings  Anthony Spalinger 7.2 The Texts and Aims of Babylonian Astronomy  Hermann Hunger 7.3 Issues in Greco-Roman Astronomy of the Hellenistic Period  Alan C. Bowen Part C Contexts 8 The Professional ἀϲτρολόγοϲ  Wolfgang Hübner Chapter 9 Hellenistic Astronomy in Public Service 9.1 The Sundial and the Calendar  Robert Hannah 9.2 The Antikythera Mechanism  James C. Evans 9.3 Hellenistic Astronomy in Medicine  Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum Chapter 10 Hellenistic Astronomy in Literature 10.1 Aratus and the Popularization of Hellenistic Astronomy  Stamatina Mastorakou 10.2 The Authority of the Roman Heavens  Alfred Schmid Chapter 11 Hellenistic Astronomy in the Training and Work of Priests 11.1 Hellenistic Astronomy and the Egyptian Priest  Alexandra von Lieven 11.2 Hellenistic Astronomy and the Babylonian Scribal Families  Mathieu Ossendrijver Chapter 12 Astral Divination and Natal Astrology 12.1 The Hellenistic Horoscope  Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum 12.2 Hellenistic Babylonian Astral Divination and Nativities  Francesca Rochberg 12.3 Hellenistic Horoscopes in Greek and Latin: Contexts and Uses  Stephan Heilen 12.4 Demotic Horoscopes  Micah T. Ross Chapter 13 Theological Contexts 13.1 Hellenistic Astronomy in Early Judaic Writings  James C. VanderKam 13.2 Astral Divination in the Dead Sea Scrolls  Helen R. Jacobus 13.3 Hellenistic Astronomy in Early Christianities  Nicola Denzey Lewis 13.4 Cosmology in Mandaean Texts  Siam Bhayro 13.5 Astral Discourse in the Philosophical Hermetica (Corpus Hermeticum)  Christian Wildberg Chapter 14 Hellenistic Astronomy in the Philosophical Schools 14.1 Astronomy and Divination in Stoic Philosophy  Giuseppe Cambiano 14.2 Plotinus on the Motion of the Stars  James Wilberding Historical Glossary of Important Terms in Hellenistic Astronomy Bibliography Index of Passages Index of Names Index of Subjects