The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
201–300
1 work
c. 210–222
Syriac
Philip, recording Bardaisan of Edessa · Bardaisan, 154–222
A dialogue against astral fatalism, arguing that if the stars governed conduct then custom could not differ from country to country — yet Brahmins eat no meat, Britons share wives, Persians marry their daughters, and Christians in every nation keep the same law regardless of the sky they were born under.
301–400
1 work
c. 334–337
Latin
Julius Firmicus Maternus
The longest astrological handbook to survive from antiquity: eight books on the houses, the aspects, and what each configuration produces in a life, written with real piety toward a cosmos in which the stars carry out the will of a supreme mind.
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