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'''Dorotheus of Sidon''' (c. 75 CE) was a 1st-century [[Hellenistic]] [[astrologer]] who wrote a didactic poem on [[horoscopic astrology]] known in Greek as the ''Pentateuch'' (five books
Very little is known about Dorotheus himself. Dorotheus most likely lived and worked in [[Alexandria]], in [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]], which, in addition to being the most important scholastic center in the [[Hellenistic Greece|Hellenistic]] world, was also the main location where the oldest [[Babylonia|Mesopotamian]], [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] and Egyptian astrological techniques were synthesized together in order to create [[horoscopic astrology]].
==External links==
* [http://www.astrologicon.org/dorotheus/dorotheus-intro.html Ἀποτελεσματικά (Apotelesmatica), original text online & biography]
*[http://www.projecthindsight.com/reference/catalog.html Project Hindsight] - on Dorotheus and contemporaries
*[http://www.skyscript.co.uk/aspects.html Deborah Houlding on Dorotheus' use of aspects]
==Publications==
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*Robert Hand, Introduction to ''The Record of the Early Sages in Greek.'' Project Hindsight. (Golden Hind Press, Berkeley Springs, WV, 1996.) (Read it online at: [http://www.astro.com/people/hand_his_e.htm])
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