Teucer of Babylon


Teucer of Babylon was an ancient Egyptian astrologer of uncertain date, though possibly of the first century AD. He is used as a source by Vettius Valens.
The 'Babylon' in his name is the Babylon Fortress near Cairo, not the ancient city in Mesopotamia.
His name Teucer seems to be a pseudonym in view of the archer in the Iliad hinting to his ‚stochastic‘ art. The origin „from Babylon“ means the Egyptian district Babylon, today Fostat, Cairo.
date: he lived between the end of the second century B.C. and the middle of the first century B.C.
He combined the zodiac with melothesia and geoygraphy, and created many unconventional constellations und is very important for the paranatellonta.
He was read perhaps by Virgil, and largely used by Manilius, Vettius Valens, Antiochos, Firmicus Maternus, Iulianos of Laodikeia, Rhetorios, Ab_ Ma_šar, Johannes Kamateros, and Giordano Bruno. It seems to have been a medio-persan and an Arabian translation.
We know fragments of three texts:
1. paranatellonta of the 36 decans, ed. F. Boll, Sphaera, id., CCAG VII, 156-214; the end from Aquarius 18° until Pisces 30°: W. Hübner, Grade und Gradbezirke and Commentary II 94-103
2. paranatellonta of certain degrees of the zodiacal signs, ed. F. Boll, Sphaera, 41-52; W. Hübner, ibid. I 108-127 and Commentary II 1-93
3. paranatellonta of the decans, ed. St. Weinstock, CCAG IX 2, p. 180-186: *