Chapter 6 On the time and kind of death (F 11–13)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Abbreviations IX
3. Preface XI
4. Contents XV
5. Introduction 1
6. First part: Fragments related to contextualization
7. Chapter 1 Critodemus and Berossus in Pliny, via Varro (F 1–2) 19
8. Chapter 2 Critodemus’ Horasis: the astrologers’ opinions (F 3–5) 45
9. Chapter 3 Orphic oaths (F 6) 69
10. Second part: Technical fragments
11. Chapter 4 The “distributions”: Critodemus’ innovation? (F 7–9) 93
12. Chapter 5 The “terms” (F 10) 123
13. Chapter 6 On the time and kind of death (F 11–13) 137
14. Chapter 7 The klimakteres (F 14–15) 157
15. Chapter 8 Tables for calculating the length of life (F 16–20) 177
16. Appendix I: timeline of ancient astrology 221
17. Appendix II: basic astrological doctrines 223
18. Appendix III: tables in Valens IX and his emulation of Critodemus 237
19. References 241
20. Index of select Greek and Latin words from the texts 247
21. Index of authors 249
22. General index 251