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Antipater Chaldaeus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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In a recent publication of four new inscriptions from Larisa in Thessaly, Kostas Gallis has revealed the helpful presence of a Syrian astrologer in that area of Greece toward the middle of the second century B.C. (or a little later). In honouring this man the Larisaeans identify him, in one of the new texts, as 'αντíπατροσ 'αντιπ⋯τρον 'ιεροπολíτησ τ⋯σ ∑ελευκíδοσ, πεπ∨λιτ*ogr;γ7rho;αϕημ⋯νοσ [δ⋯] ⋯ν 'ομολíω υπ⋯ρχων χαλδαῖοσ ⋯στρονóμοσ, ⋯νδημ⋯ν τἦμ⋯ν ⋯ρò ρρóνων. The Chaldaean astrologer Antipater is accordingly a native of Syrian Hierapolis who acquired the citizenship of Homolion, in the area of Thessalian Magnesia. He evidently spent considerable time in Larisa.
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page 491 note 1 K. Gallis, 'Ἀρχ. 'Ἀνάλεκτα '⋯ξ Ἀθην⋯ν 13, fasc. 2 (1981), 250–1.
page 491 note 2 On ⋯ Σελευκίς, cf. Strabo, 749–53; for Ὀμόλιον (or Ὀμόλη), Strabo, 443.
page 491 note 3 Vitruv, . De arch. 9Google Scholar. 6. 2.
page 491 note 4 Cramer, F. H., Astrology in Roman Law and Politics (1954), 14Google Scholar mistakenly assumes that Vitruvius designates Antipater and Achinapolus as students of Berosus and therefore of third-century date. Since Cramer's text of Vitruvius (Rose) read ei studens, he seems to have misconstrued ei.
page 491 note 5 Polyaen, . Strat. 4Google Scholar. 20. Cf. Strabo, 739.
page 491 note 6 Pliny, , HN 7Google Scholar. 37, 123.