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Vettius Valens
Vettius Valens
c. 120 CE–c. 175 CE · Alexandria
Vettius Valens (c. 120-c. 175 CE) was a Greek astrologer, author of the Anthologies, one of the most substantial surviving astrological treatises of antiquity. The work draws on numerous example horoscopes, making it an important source both for ancient astrological practice and, through its dated charts, for the history of astronomy.
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About Alexandria
Alexandria (al-Iskandariyya) is the great Mediterranean port-city of northern Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE and a leading centre of learning in antiquity. After the Muslim conquest of Egypt (642) it remained a major commercial and scholarly hub; the Shadhili Sufi Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309) took his nisba from the city, and the modernist reformer Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905) was active in Egypt's intellectual life there and in Cairo.
In Alexandria at the same time
Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Dionysius Periegetes, Appian of Alexandria, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Harpocration, Achilles Tatius
Across the traditions, in Alexandria at the same time
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Vettius Valens’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
In the same tradition
Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Dionysius Periegetes, Appian of Alexandria, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Harpocration, Achilles Tatius, Apollonius Dyscolus, Galen, Sextus Empiricus
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Vettius Valens’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.