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Adagia
All things
Allegory
Ammianus Marcellinus
Ancient Egypt
Artemidorus
Augury
Author_Horapollo Niliacus
Bestiary
Bustard
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Christian literature
Ciconia
Clement of Alexandria
Conjecture (textual criticism)
Creation myth
Cyril of Alexandria
Diodorus Siculus
Diogenes of Sinope
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptians
Egyptology
Egyptomania
Ekpyrosis
Emblem
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Erudition
Erwin Panofsky
Explanation
Filial piety
God
Greek literature
Hellenistic period
Hermetica
Herodotus
Horapollo
Iconology
Illustration
Insect
John 3:16
Literature
Manetho
Manuscript
Mario Praz
Marsilio Ficino
Medusa's Head
Metaphor
Neoplatonism
Nostril
Oyster crab
Parable
Philosopher
Philosophy
Physiologus
Platonism
Plotinus
Pythagoreanism
Ratramnus
Roman Empire
Stobaeus
Stoicism
Superiority (short story)
Swallow
The Philosopher
The She-bear
Theology
Thought
Tomb
Treatise
Two Kinds
Unigenitus
Urine
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691000923
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 05 Dec 1993
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Written reputedly by an Egyptian magus, Horapollo Niliacus, in the fourth century C.E., The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo is an anthology of nearly two hundred "hieroglyphics," or allegorical emblems, said to have been used by the Pharaonic scribes in describing natural and moral aspects of the world. Translated into Greek in 1505, it informed much of Western iconography from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. This work not only tells how various types of natural phenomena, emotions, virtues, philosophical concepts, and human character-types were symbolized, but also explains why, for example, the universe is represented by a serpent swallowing its tail, filial affection by a stork, education by the heavens dropping dew, and a horoscopist by a person eating an hourglass. In his introduction Boas explores the influence of The Hieroglyphics and the causes behind the rebirth of interest in symbolism in the sixteenth century. The illustrations to this edition were drawn by Albrecht Durer on the verso pages of his copy of a Latin translation.
At the time of his death George Boas was Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University.
