Is Astrology Used in the Ancient World?

There was a tension in the Hellenistic tradition and the Greco-Roman period between some of the astrologers that were more stoically inclined who thought that you should. That's one of the primary purposes, whether you're fully deterministic or even just partially deterministic, that there's some element where you're trying to learn the future to know what you have to accept. So I think this was a debate that was happening in the ancient world with different astrologers on different sides or at least coming from different perspectives. Going back to Mesopotamia even because astrology and 1,000 BCE, they would do it for the city or the state, but then sometimes they

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