Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the Astrology podcast in this

episode.

I'm going to be talking with Benjamin Dykes about his new translation of the astrological

texts of the fourth century astrologer for Max Maternis.

So he and welcome to the show me sir, having me back, yeah, it's going to have you.

This is I actually just recorded my 400th episode yesterday, and it reminded me that you were

actually my first guest on the Astrology podcast on episode two way back in 2012.

Wow, that was that was long ago.

Yeah, I think we were we were I was interviewing you about a much earlier book.

I think it was choices and inceptions your book on electional astrology.

Oh, congratulations.

Thank you.

Well, speaking of like big, huge feats of accomplishment, like you have just translated

what I believe it's often referred to as like the longest astrological text that survives

from antiquity.

And I think there's some debate about whether like valence is longer, whether fermix is longer,

but in terms of delineation material length, it seems like this is probably the longest surviving

astrological text from ancient times, or at least from probably prior to the medieval period,

I would think.

Yeah, and it's, I mean, as for completeness, it's hard to beat too.

I mean, there's as well as we'll talk about today, there's lots of special features to it.

And by his name dropping, we're also, we also know that we're getting some of the texts

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