Astrological Melothesia in Ancient Rome and India, Tejas Aralere's 2023 dissertation in Classics, co-advised across Classics and Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, confirmed against the author's own university page and curriculum vitae, traces the Greek etymology of melothesia and its first appearance in Manilius's Astronomica against the Yavana Jataka's Indian reception. Its strength is that formally examined original comparative research few other sources attempt. Its limit is that a dissertation, while rigorously examined, has not undergone the additional round of peer review a published monograph or journal article receives; check for a later published version if one exists.
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Tier one: a formally examined doctoral dissertation, co advised across Classics and Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, presenting original comparative research directly on the term's history. Its limit is that a dissertation, while rigorously examined, has not undergone the further round of peer review a published monograph would add; check for a later published version if one exists. NotesPhD dissertation, Department of Classics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2023, co-advised across Classics and Religious Studies. Traces astrological melothesia's Greek etymology (melos, limb, plus thesis, a setting or position) and its first appearance in Manilius's Astronomica (circa 20 to 40 CE), comparing its development against the Yavana Jataka's Indian reception. Use for the term's etymology and its distinction from the broader field of iatromathematica.
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AuthorTejas Subramanya Aralere
PublisherUniversity of California, Santa Barbara (eScholarship)
Publication Year2023
URLhttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/84c691nn
Source TypeThesis
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