{"product_id":"sacred-geography-of-the-ancient-jean-richer-9780791420249","title":"Sacred Geography of the Ancient Greeks: Astrological Symbolism in Art, Architecture, and Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book provides proof of the existence and explains the significance of planned alignments between classical temples and oracle sites over a wide range of territory, pointing to an astrological system of planning in the ancient world. This system of symbolism may be used predictively and is supported by all relevant artifacts. Here is a unifying approach to the study of geomancy in the ancient world as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRicher has found a network of significant geographic alignments, associated with the pathways of various legendary figures and gods, that are geomantic keys to many legends and texts. One of these texts is Plato's Laws in which Plato describes the layout of the ideal city. Richer found Plato's ideal city repeated around the most important oracular centers on ancient Greece. He shows how Plato's description was a later codification of a much earlier practice of dividing geography into twelve regions under the patronage of the gods of the zodiac. Several such twelve-part divisions of the Greek Territories are presented here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean Richer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791420248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791420249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 5.90w x 0.77d","brand":"Jean Richer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086342074623,"sku":"9780791420249","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ac301233-6a6d-4199-add1-c5e5342a5da1.jpg?v=1769094142","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sacred-geography-of-the-ancient-jean-richer-9780791420249","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}