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The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous: Hieroglyphic Semantics in Late Antiquity book cover

1st Edition

The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous Hieroglyphic Semantics in Late Antiquity

By Mark Wildish Copyright 2018
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge
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The main aim of this book is to reconstruct a philosophical context for the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo, a late 5 th century Greek study of hieroglyphic writing. In addition to reviewing and drawing on earlier approaches it explores the range of signs and meanings for which Horapollo is interested in giving explanations, whether there are characteristic types of explanations given, what... Read more

Preface





Introduction





1 The Text and Author of the Hieroglyphica





2 Linguistic Signs



2.1 The Historical Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs



2.2 Meaning in Horapollo



2.3 Neoplatonic Theories of Meaning





3 Natural Signs



3.1 The Graeco-Roman Reception of the Tradition



3.2 Genre: Lexicon or Encyclopedia?



3.3 Natural and Artefactual Signs in Horapollo





4 Divine Symbols



4.1 The Christian-Pagan Controversy



4.2 The Allegory of Hieroglyphic Egyptian



4.3 Neoplatonic Hieroglyphics





5 The Cosmos of the Hieroglyphica



5.1 Horapollo’s Symbolic Hieroglyphs



5.2 Horapollo’s Metaphysics



5.3 Sensible Nature and the Intelligible Cosmos





Conclusion: Re-reading the Hieroglyphica





Appendixes



Appendix 1: Horapollo’s Hieroglyphs and their Meanings



Appendix 2: The Egyptian Content of the Hieroglyphica



Appendix 3: The Coptic Content of the Hieroglyphica





Bibliography



Text Editions



Secondary Texts



Other Primary Texts Cited



Other Secondary Texts Cited

Biography

Mark Wildish is Tutor / Honorary Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Hong Kong.

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