Hellenistic Track Translations

Claudius Ptolemy: Phases of the Fixed Stars

(Greek Track Volume III)

Table of Contents

Introduction to Ptolemy's Phases by Robert Hand .................................................................. iii
          Modern Use of the Tables ............................................................................................. iv

Translator's Preface by Robert Schmidt .................................................................................. vi
          The Possible Relation of Stellar Phases to Greek Philosophy ....................................... vi
          The Content of the Phases............................................................................................ ix
          The Role of the Phases in the Ptolemaic Corpus ............................................................ x
          Ptolemy's Greek ............................................................................................................ xi
          Geminus' Calendar ....................................................................................................... xii
          General Note ............................................................................................................... xiii
                    phasis ................................................................................................................ xiii
                    epitello ............................................................................................................... xiv
                    episemasia ......................................................................................................... xv

The Phases of the Fixed Stars and a Collection of Indications by Ptolemy ............................. 1
          Prologue ....................................................................................................................... 1
                    Section 1 ............................................................................................................ 1
                    Section 2............................................................................................................. 3
                    Section 3............................................................................................................. 3
                    Section 4............................................................................................................. 4
                    Section 5............................................................................................................. 5
                    Section 6............................................................................................................. 6
                    Section 7............................................................................................................. 6
                    Section 8............................................................................................................. 8
                    Section 9............................................................................................................. 8
          The Calendar or Register ........................................................................................... 10
          Epilogue...................................................................................................................... 47

Calendar or Register Attributed to Geminus ........................................................................ 49

Appendix I - Translation Conventions .................................................................................. 59

Appendix II - Introduction to Stellar Phases ........................................................................ 62

Appendix III - Table of Longest Days and Latitudes Derived from the Almagest .................. 69

Appendix IV - Almegest, Book VIII, Chap. 4 translated by J.M. Ashmand .............................. 70

Appendix V - The Alexandrian Calendar ................................................................................ 75

Appendix VI - Special Lexicon of Greek Meterological Terminology in Ptolemy's Phases
          and Geminus' Register ................................................................................................ 76

Appendix VII - The Modern Designations of Ptolemy's 30 Stars ............................................ 78

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