Annus Platonicus [numerics of Hellenic World-cycles]

Platon: Timaios (35b-36b)

p. 6 -- musical scale of 34 terms in 5 octaves:

1 = Moon

2 = Sun

4 = Mercury

8 = Mars

16

9/8 = tone

9/4

9/2

9 = Jupiter

18

81/64

81/32

81/16

81/8

81/4

4/3 = 4th

8/3

16/3

32/3

64/3

3/2 = 5th

3 = Venus

6

12

24

27/16

27/8

27/4

27/2

27 = Saturn

243/128

243/64

243/62

243/16

 

where (pp. 5-6) the movements of the parts of the world-soul are:

divisibility (p. 5)

substance (pp. 5, 6)

"to the __" (p. 6)

"to the __ circle" (p. 6)

namely, the __ (p. 6)

total (p. 8, fn. 20)

indivisible

"Same"

right

outer

caelestial aequator

27

divisible

"Other"

left

inner

ecliptic

54

p. 11 the 2 harmonies of mortal begettings

ordinal

shape

harmony

= __ (product)

1st

square

(36^2)*(100^2)

12,960,000

2nd

oblong

(48*100)*(27*100)

12,960,000

   

(3*4*5)^4

12,960,000

this is the "Geometric Number"

p. 15 according to Proklos

the period of the

is the product of the

and of the

Geometric Number

Perfect year

period of metempsychosis

measuring

measuring

measuring

all cycles of the universe

the cycles of the world-soul

the cycles of individual souls

so that the "Great Year" of Platon measureth 25,920 years

pp. 16-17 the 2 alternating revolutions of the world (Platon: Politikos 268d-273e) --

3-fold legend:

1st

quarrel between Atreus & Thuestes

2nd

reign of Kronos (= "Golden Age")

3rd

the antient earth-born folk

p. 17, fn. 42 according to Herodotos (Historie 2:142),

the quarrel between Atreus & Thuestes was

connected with the 4 alternations of the Sun's revolution over 11,340 years

p. 22 these include (Timaios 22a-23b):

myth

destruction of world by __

Phoroneus & +Niobe

 

Deukalion & +Purrhe

deluge

Phaethon son of Helios

sun

{cf. also the accounts by the Naasenoi in Hippolutos: Refutatio omnium haeresium 5}

p. 32 reckoning (as per G. d. C.) by analogy with the 10 yuga-s:

proportion

years

"__ Age"

4

10,368

Golden

3

7,776

Silver

2

5,184

Bronze

1

2,592

Iron

with "world reversals ... every 12,960 years"

[with this conjectured 7,776-year period, cf. the 7,777-year period on pp. 104-5 & 87, citing Hippolutos: Refutatio omnium haeresium 4:7]

pp. 33 & 69 -- Censorinus: De Die Natali (18:11)

assignments of duration to the "Great Year", consisting of the alternating pair: winter = kataklusmos (diluvio "flood") & summer = ekpurosis (incendium "conflagration")

authority

years

Aristarkhos

2,484

Aretes of Durrhakhion

5,552

Linos

10,800

Dion

10,884

Orpheus

120,000

Cassandros

3,600,000

p. 51 -- Tacitus: Dialogus de Oratoribus (16)

according to the (now lost) Hortensius by Cicero, the "Great Year" was 12,954 years' duration

[Inasmuch as the days of the year number (p. 54, fn. 150) 365+1/4 according to Cicero: De Natura Deorum (2:19), this smaller number (12,954) was used as a multiplicand (instead of 12,960 which would have been multiplied by 365 instead), to yield a product of days.]

pp. 76-77 planetary cycles [relative to the earth], according to Lydus: De Mensibus (3:16); paraphrased by Michael Psellos: De Ominifaria Doctrina (161)

planet

years

Saturn

265

Jupiter

427

Mars

284

Sun

1,461

Venus

1,151

Mercury

480

Moon

25

"universal return" (conjunction of all planets) in 1,753,200 years

p. 114 -- Proklos: Politeiai Logon ton Mouson

according to Sosigenes, the "Perfect Year" =

34*10,000^4 + 43(..)*10,000^3 + 7876*10,000^2 + 3836*10,000 + 6(..) years

cycle of praecession of the aequinoctes

p.

authority

years

122

Macrobius

15,000

123

Ptolemaios

36,000

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