Source books · Greek and Roman mysteries
Roman History
Rhōmaikē Historia
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- Greek and Roman mysteries
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In this study
Cassius Dio's history includes an early explanation of the seven-day planetary week and the planetary-hour order used to derive it.
Book 37.18–19 explicitly gives both the sequence of weekday rulers and the hourly Chaldean order.
Cited for 7 sourced claims here, among them correspondences of Friday, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Monday, Moon, Saturday and Saturn.