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Vettius Valens (120 – c. 175) was a 2nd-century Hellenistic astrologer, a somewhat younger contemporary of Claudius Ptolemy.
Valens' major work is the Anthology (Latin: Anthologia), ten volumes in Greek written roughly within the period 150 to 175. The Anthology is the longest and most detailed treatise on astrology which has survived from that period. A working professional astrologer, Valens includes over a hundred sample charts from his case files in the Anthology.
VettiusValens (120 – c. 175) was a 2nd-century Hellenistic astrologer, a somewhat younger contemporary of Claudius Ptolemy. Valens' major work is the...
eclipses, with authors such as VettiusValens claiming that he used Sudines to compute lunar eclipses. The "use" of Sudines in Valens' Anthologies suggests that...
planet Saturn, which controlled the first hour of that day, according to VettiusValens. The day's name was introduced into West Germanic languages and is recorded...
days of the week. The astrological order of the days was explained by VettiusValens and Dio Cassius (and Chaucer gave the same explanation in his Treatise...
Moon, whichever preceded the birth.) Some ancient authorities (viz. VettiusValens) used slightly different chart positions to obtain the hyleg. The word...
weekdays after the seven classical planets, in the Anthologiarum by VettiusValens (c. AD 170). The Latin name is reflected directly in the weekday name...
simplified for the noun: emptying, depletion, emptiness (of life) (VettiusValens) depletion, low diet, as opposed to plerosis, fullness (Hippocrates)...
into Europe, and the Middle East. Additionally, some authors such as VettiusValens and Paulus Alexandrinus took into account the Monomoiria, or individual...
gain, loss or damage." (Lilly, Ibid., p. 31.) ^ See the 2nd century CE VettiusValens, The Anthology, Book II, Part I [tr. by Robert Schmidt] Project Hindsight...
Amaseia called him Kidenas, Pliny the Elder called him Cidenas, and VettiusValens called him Kidynas. Some cuneiform and classical Greek and Latin texts...
earliest known authors on astrology", he was used as a source by Pliny and VettiusValens among others. His dates are uncertain but 1st century AD at the latest...
(approximate date) Faustina the Younger, Roman empress (b. AD 130) VettiusValens, Greek astrologer, writer (b. AD 120) Heerlen.nl Archived September...
de oratoribus. In the second century AD, astronomer and astrologer VettiusValens wrote: There are many wheels, most moving from west to east, but some...
confirmation of the survival of the more obscure astrological techniques of VettiusValens, the practicing astrologer whose tradition is somewhat at variance with...
1996.) ISBN 0-935127-49-6. ^ or "place of the Goddess of the Moon," VettiusValens. Anthologiae. [Translated by Robert Schmidt for Project Hindsight] (The...
value for the year that is attributed to Hipparchus (by the astrologer VettiusValens in the first century) is 365 + 1/4 + 1/288 days (= 365.25347... days...
an alternate lot tradition derived from the 2nd century astrologer VettiusValens. "Introduction to Astronomy, Containing the Eight Divided Books of Abu...
view of the dignities. To earlier astrologers, such as Ptolemy and VettiusValens, sign rulership, exaltation, triplicity rulership and bounds rulership...
Alexandria, recorded principally in the work of Claudius Ptolemy and VettiusValens, various systems attributing symbolic significance to decans arose and...
Pinax was known and cited by the later following astrological writers: VettiusValens, Porphyry and Hephaistio. Thrasyllus may have married a member of the...
the north of Gujarat and a portion of central India. February 8 – VettiusValens, Greek astrologer (d. 175) Irenaeus, Greek bishop and apologist (approximate...
causing summer in Cancer and winter in Capricorn". By comparison, VettiusValens mentions the fact that Cancer is a tropical sign as one of 14 descriptive...
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