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The Astrology Podcast

Translating Ancient Greek Astrological Texts

The Astrology Podcast

Chris Brennan

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Religion

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

In episode 267 astrologer and scholar Levente László joins the show to talk about his new translation project for ancient Greek astrological texts, and to discuss some of the translations he has completed so far. Levente is classical philologist from Hungary, and he recently launched the Horoi Project, which is a crowdfunding project to translate […]

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the astrology podcast.

0:03.7

This is episode 267, and today I'm going to be talking with Levant Lazzlow

0:09.0

about his new translation project for translating all of the remaining ancient Greek

0:14.0

astrological texts from the Hellenistic and Byzantine astrological traditions.

0:19.6

So today is August 11th 2020 2020 starting at exactly 1.15 PM in Denver, Colorado.

0:27.0

So, hey, Levant, welcome back to the show.

0:30.0

Hi, thank you for having me again.

0:32.2

Yeah, so this is your second time on the show.

0:34.6

The last time was a few years ago when we did an episode together talking about

0:39.6

the early history and the origins and some of the mysteries surrounding

0:43.7

Horary astrology, what must have been like three years ago now I think, right?

0:48.0

Oh, well, yeah, I said two years and a half, maybe.

0:52.0

Okay, so in the meantime you've been working on your background and you've recently

0:59.5

launched a new translation project called the Horai project in order to basically crowd fund the

1:07.1

translation of the remaining ancient astrological texts from ancient Greek through people supporting you on Patreon, right?

1:15.0

That's right, yes. I just launched it a couple of months ago and it is still a sort of

1:21.0

of beta testing because there is no webpage for the project, a dedicated

1:26.4

what page that I mean.

1:28.8

But I'm just translating texts and I'm trying to organize and I'm trying to expand the horizon of this this

1:36.2

translation project.

1:38.2

Brilliant and so far it's good it seems like it's going really well You've already got a decent bit of patrons and you're trying to go for certain funding goals so that basically if you're able to reach these goals in the next few months you can fund the project and translate texts all the time basically, right?

1:57.5

Well, yes, basically if I can reach this goal, I can spend more time translating this text and that maybe I can maintain this

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