Biography:Antipater (astrologer)

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Short description: Ancient Greek astrologer

Antipater (Ancient Greek:) was an astrologer or mathematician of Ancient Greece of uncertain date. He wrote a work upon genethlialogia, in which he endeavored to explain man's fate, not from the circumstances under which he was born, but from those under which he had been conceived.[1] Nothing further is known of his life.[2]

Notes

  1. Vitruvius Pollio, De architectura 9.6
  2. Tester, S.J. (1999). A History of Western Astrology. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. pp. 16. ISBN 9780851152554. https://books.google.com/books?id=-szKaDqpFhUC. Retrieved 2016-01-30. 

See also

  • Archinapolus

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSchmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Antipater". in Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 201. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/acl3129.0001.001/216.