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Paulus Alexandrinus
Paulus Alexandrinus was an astrological author from the late Roman Empire. His extant work, ''Eisagogika'', or ''Introductory Matters'' (or ''Introduction''), which was written in 378 AD, is a treatment of major topics in astrology as practiced in the fourth century Roman Empire.
==Biography==
Little is known about Paulus' life. He lived in Alexandria, one of the most scholarly cities of the Roman world, where astrology was also at its most sophisticated. In his lifetime, Rome's power was declining and the capital of the Roman Empire had been moved to Constantinople. We know he was regarded as a considerable authority because we have the record of a series of lectures given on his work by the respected Neo-Platonist philosopher Olympiodorus some two centuries later (in 564 AD), in Alexandria. These lectures were preserved in a ''Commentary'' and both Paulus' ''Introduction'' and Olympiodorus' ''Commentary'' have been translated together,〔''Late Classical Astrology: Paulus Alexandrinus and Olympiodorus (with the Scholia of later Latin Commentators''). (by Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum. ) Archive for the Retrieval of Historical Astrological Texts (ARHAT) (), 2001.〕 giving a view of the development of astrological technique and contemporary attitudes towards astrology from the tumultuous late Empire through the even more unstable early Byzantine Empire.
The ''Introduction'' may be most interesting for its discussion of the eleven phases of the Moon, because it gives us a clear treatment of a topic whose influence on Greek astrological speculation has likely been much underestimated〔''Late Classical Astrology'', 2001, pp. 92–97ff.〕 The Moon's phases are probably the single most influential factor in katarchic charts of the Hellenistic period, going back beyond Dorotheus of Sidon. Also very important in the ''Introduction'' are the Lots,〔''Late Classical Astrology'', 2001, pp. 101–111ff.〕 which were at the core of Hellenistic astrological technique,〔See Vettius Valens, ''The Anthology.'' Book III. (by Robert Schmidt and edited by Robert Hand. ) Project Hindsight, Greek Track, Vol. VIII (The Golden Hind Press, Berkeley Springs, WV, 1994.〕 although the scientifically minded Ptolemy avoids them. Paulus also discusses dodekatemoria and monomoiria, and gives an extensive treatment of sect in astrological analysis, and of the influence of planetary aspects as they apply and separate (the Hellenistic understanding of which is considerably at odds with modern practice.)
At the time Paulus wrote, there was notable intellectual consolidation taking place in astrology. Forty years earlier, Julius Firmicus Maternus had written ''Mathesis'', a long and very detailed summary of the astrological technique of his time, which has come down to us intact. Contemporaneous with Paulus, an anonymous writer had produced a ''Treatise on the Fixed Stars'' in 379 AD, which is our best record of how practical astrologers of the Roman period after Ptolemy dealt with stars in the context of the astrological chart; a few decades later came three books (''Apotelesmatika'')by the Egyptian Hephaistio of Thebes (415 AD) integrating Ptolemy with earlier traditions.
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