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A close reading of Mark Riley's translation of Vettius Valens Anthologies, with the assumption that the chart of February 9, 120 AD (which appears numerous times in the book) is that of Valens himself, then in Book 7, under shipwreck sailor no. 2, Valens gives his klima as 7, which is the north shore of the Black Sea, presumably in one of the Greek colonies. Where the "Antioch" tag came from is a mystery, as Antioch is on the southern coast of Turkey, near Syria.
In the same book (7) he gives the chart data, including ascendant, for an infant born February 4, 173, who lived 13 days. The klima was 6, which amounts to Sebastopol. At the time, Valens was just short of his 53rd birthday. As astrologers normally work with locals, a Greek colony in the area (klima 6), such as Hermonassa, is likely to have been his actual place of residence.
So it would appear that after years of travel, Valens eventually returned to his own back yard, so to speak. This makes it unlikely he associated with Ptolemy, or much of anyone else in Alexandria. Since he started out in the Black Sea, we may wonder if he ever made it into the Mediterranean.
I am presently preparing the Riley translation for publication. It will include all of Valens' charts.
Dave of Maryland ( talk) 18:21, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
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A close reading of Mark Riley's translation of Vettius Valens Anthologies, with the assumption that the chart of February 9, 120 AD (which appears numerous times in the book) is that of Valens himself, then in Book 7, under shipwreck sailor no. 2, Valens gives his klima as 7, which is the north shore of the Black Sea, presumably in one of the Greek colonies. Where the "Antioch" tag came from is a mystery, as Antioch is on the southern coast of Turkey, near Syria.
In the same book (7) he gives the chart data, including ascendant, for an infant born February 4, 173, who lived 13 days. The klima was 6, which amounts to Sebastopol. At the time, Valens was just short of his 53rd birthday. As astrologers normally work with locals, a Greek colony in the area (klima 6), such as Hermonassa, is likely to have been his actual place of residence.
So it would appear that after years of travel, Valens eventually returned to his own back yard, so to speak. This makes it unlikely he associated with Ptolemy, or much of anyone else in Alexandria. Since he started out in the Black Sea, we may wonder if he ever made it into the Mediterranean.
I am presently preparing the Riley translation for publication. It will include all of Valens' charts.
Dave of Maryland ( talk) 18:21, 22 June 2011 (UTC)