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Claire Hall on Firmicus Maternus

Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

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The Dream Manual of Artemidorus

There is a literature we already know there are other writers before him in Latin and presumably he can read stuff in Greek as well with the majority of astrological texts are in Greek. And it's clear that they're traditional, but it's also clear that Artemidorus, for example, as a dream diviner will have been taking notes as well. So yes, I do think there are cases where he's where he probably is, yeah, taking notes and seeing how things go. But again, how would you know either, you know, how could you find that out from the text either way? Yeah.

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