Books

The classic thesis that myth encodes ancient astronomical knowledge — the same myth-as-cosmology thread running through The Stones of Time and The Astronomical Code of the Ṛgveda.

A scholarly survey from Paleolithic lunar counters through Mesopotamian astral divination and Egyptian stellar religion to the fall of Rome.

The earliest surviving Latin treatise on astrology — zodiac, decans, and celestial lore in verse — a Loeb to sit beside Saturnalia and Epinomis.

Also by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie, ed. David R. Fideler · Phanes Press: The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library: An Anthology of Ancient Writings Which Relate to Pythagoras and Pythagorean Philosophy.

The reference history of what ancient Chinese, Arabic, Hellenic and Roman cultures named the constellations — zodiac origins, stellar lore in sacred texts, and astrology.

New editions and study of 114 Babylonian planetary tablets, the earliest mathematical astronomy, built on the uniform zodiac and sexagesimal notation.

Constellation lore from Greek, Roman, Indigenous and other cultures, from the scholar who helped found archaeoastronomy and cultural astronomy.

Celestial mythology in the lineage of Star Names: the myths, legends, and symbolic significance the stars have assumed across many cultures and ancient civilizations.