Dorotheus

Dorotheus of Sidon in Wikipedia

Dorotheus of Sidon (c. 75 CE) was a first-century Hellenistic astrologer who wrote a didactic poem on horoscopic astrology known in Greek as the Pentateuch (five books), or in Latin as the Carmen Astrologicum (Song of Astrology). The Pentateuch, which was a textbook on Hellenistic astrology, has come down to us mainly from an Arabic translation dat...

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Dorotheus (jurist) in Wikipedia

Dorotheus (Greek: Δωρόθεος) was a professor of jurisprudence in the law school of Berytus in Syria, and one of the three commissioners appointed by the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I to draw up a book of Institutes, after the model of the Institutes of Gaius, which should serve as an introduction to the Digest (or Pandects) already completed. Hi...

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