Astrometeorología e influencia lunar en las Quaestiones Convivales de Plutarco

Abstract

Among the scarce references to ancient astrology in Plutarch’s works, we must pay attention to questions of astrometeorology. Such references, limited to the Sun and the Moon, concern popular beliefs on the influence of both stars on plants and animals. In this paper I analyse some passages from the Quaestiones convivales where Plutarch echoes those beliefs concerning the effects of the Moon and the Sun on the nature and physiology of the beings of this world. Similar astrometeorological prescriptions are also found in astrological texts, such as lunaria from late antiquity and the Middle Ages.