The present article investigates the methodological and ideological continuity adopted in the astrological patterns useful for a (political and military) prognosis concerning the destiny of a rebel between Sasanian Iran and early Islamic tradition. The comparison between the reports given to king Ardawān by his astrologers (in the Kārnāmag ī Ardaxšīr ī Pābagān, when the young prince Ardaxšīr escaped form Parthian control), and the methods adopted by Theophilus of Edessa in order to cast his prognosis for the rebellions of the years 758-759 against his lord, the Abbasid prince, the future al-Mahdī, shows that the di¬rect as-similation of the runaway slave to a rebel (with all the other apotelesmatic associations fruit of an elaboration already present in the treaties of Dorotheus of Sidon and Hephaestio Thebanus) was not a later innovation by Theophanes himself. This solution, in fact, corresponds to the one adopted for a similar earlier Sasanian framework, from whose pattern it could even derive.
Antonio, P., Franco, M. (2020). The ‘amphibology’ of the Time in Astrology. The King and the Rebel in Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Astrological Literature. STUDIA IRANICA, 49(1), 7-31 [10.2143/SI.49.1.3289137].
The ‘amphibology’ of the Time in Astrology. The King and the Rebel in Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Astrological Literature
Antonio, Panaino
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The present article investigates the methodological and ideological continuity adopted in the astrological patterns useful for a (political and military) prognosis concerning the destiny of a rebel between Sasanian Iran and early Islamic tradition. The comparison between the reports given to king Ardawān by his astrologers (in the Kārnāmag ī Ardaxšīr ī Pābagān, when the young prince Ardaxšīr escaped form Parthian control), and the methods adopted by Theophilus of Edessa in order to cast his prognosis for the rebellions of the years 758-759 against his lord, the Abbasid prince, the future al-Mahdī, shows that the di¬rect as-similation of the runaway slave to a rebel (with all the other apotelesmatic associations fruit of an elaboration already present in the treaties of Dorotheus of Sidon and Hephaestio Thebanus) was not a later innovation by Theophanes himself. This solution, in fact, corresponds to the one adopted for a similar earlier Sasanian framework, from whose pattern it could even derive.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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