With Antiochus we are indeed at the edge of knowledge, or so I infer from the article in the Realencyclopadie, which is meagre indeed:<\/p>\n
\n68) Aus Athen (Hephaistion Theb. II 1 bei Engelbrecht Hephaest. von Theb. 36), Astrolog. von dessen B\u00fcchern manches handschriftlich erhalten ist (vgl. Englebrecht a.a.O Fabricius Bibl. Gr. 1 III c. 20).<\/p>\n
68) From Athens (Hephaistio Theb. II 1\u00a0in Engelbrecht Hephaest. of \u00a0Thebes<\/em> 36), astrologer. Some of his books are\u00a0preserved in manuscript (cf.\u00a0 Englebrecht ibid<\/em>, Fabricius Bibl Gr<\/em>. 1 III c. 20).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Even the reference to “Engelbrecht” seems obscure.\u00a0 Fortunately\u00a0there is an explanation and a download\u00a0online at the same scholarly astrology site we mentioned earlier, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nA critical edition of the early 4th century astrologer Hephaistio of Thebes’ Apotelesmatics <\/em>was published by Engelbrecht in 1887. This edition was superceded by David Pingree’s critical edition of the same text<\/a> in the mid-1970’s, although since Engelbrecht’s edition is in the public domain we provide it below courtesy of Google Books: Hephaistio of Thebes – Engelbrecht edition<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The Pingree edition is a Teubner,\u00a0Hephaestionis Thebani Apotelesmaticorum libri tres: Apotelesmaticorum epitomae quattuor<\/em> (1974).\u00a0 There is a wiki page for Hephaestio of Thebes<\/a>, which tells us:<\/p>\n
\nThe first two volumes of the Apotelesmatics<\/em> have been translated into English (by Robert Schmidt of Project Hindsight); the third volume … is in preparation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The Project Hindsight page is here<\/a>, although how to get hold of the translations is not indicated, and these include extracts by Antiochus of Athens). A table of contents is here<\/a> for Hephaestio. Schmidt’s translations are unknown to the British research system, which indicates not a single copy of any of them is held in any library in the UK.<\/p>\n
Looking at Engelbrecht, p.36 quotes the opening of Hephaisto, book 2, which does indeed discuss Antiochus of Athens.\u00a0 After an extract (untranslated — why let the peasants read it?) he continues that there was indeed an astrologer named Antiochus of Athens, as the mss. Laurentiani plutei 28, 7 and 28, 34 contain an extract of The Thesaurus of Antiochus<\/em>.\u00a0 The Vienna ms. phil. gr. 179 contains something “from Antiochus the Astronomer”; and Vienna phil. gr. 108 folio 342v contains another reference.<\/p>\n
All this is all very well… but I wish I could get my hands on Boll’s edition of his calendar!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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