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Proclus' On the hieratic art according to the Greeks : critical edition with translation and commentary / Eleni Pachoumi.

"The book is a critical edition of the text with an English translation and commentary of Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks. The Hieratic Art is the Theurgic Art, theurgy, the theurgic union with the divine. Proclus describes the theurgic union, putting an emphasis on a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Pachoumi, Eleni, 1975- (Author)
Other Authors: Proclus, approximately 410-485
Format: eBook
Language:English
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Published: Boston : Brill, 2024.
Series:Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; 33.
Subjects:
Proclus, > approximately 410-485. > On the hieratic art according to the Greeks.
Greece > Religion.
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Half-Title Page
  • Series Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Proclus' Life and on the Orphic and Chaldaean Theologies
  • 2. Proclus' Works
  • 2.1. Proclus' Complete Works
  • 2.2. Proclus' Lost Works or Preserved in Fragments on Theological Tradition, Orphic Theology and Theurgy
  • 3. Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks and His Lost Works
  • 4. Manuscripts
  • 4.1. MS Vallicellianus F 20, Fols. 138r-140v
  • 4.1.1. Contents of Part 1 of MS Vallicellianus F 20, Fols. i-172
  • 4.1.2. The Dating of MS Vallicellianus F 20, Fols. 138r-140v from Watermarks and other Sources
  • 4.1.3. Ficino's Life and Works
  • 4.2. MS Laurentianus Plut. 10.32, Fols. 119r-121v
  • 4.2.1. Contents of MS Laurentianus Plut. 10.32, Fols. 1r-174v
  • 4.2.2. The Dating of MS Laurentianus Plut. 10.32, Fols. 119r-121v from Watermarks and other Sources
  • 4.2.3. Petrus Candidus' Life and Works
  • 4.3. Comparison between MS V, Fols. i-144r and MS L, Fols. 1r-124r
  • 4.4. Ficino's Edited Translations of Proclus' de Sacrificio et Magia
  • 5. Text, Transmission, Modern Studies
  • 7. Energeia, "Activity"
  • Appendix. MS Vallicellianus F 20
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Greek Words
  • Index of Ancient Sources
  • Index of Names and Subjects
  • Back Cover
  • 6. The Title Προκ́λου Περι ̀της͂ καθ' Ελ̔́ληνας ιἑρατικης͂ τεχ́νης, "Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks"
  • 7. Book Description
  • Critical Apparatus
  • Text and Translation
  • Commentary
  • 1. Hieratic Art-Theurgy, Teletai and Invocations, Sympathy, Heliotropes and Luminaries
  • 2. The Stages of the Hieratic/Theurgic Art
  • 3. The Lotus, the Sun, and the Stones
  • 4. Lions and Cocks, Systaseis and Symbols
  • 5. Mixing, One and Many, Helios, Statues and Synthêmata
  • 6. Direct Revelations/Epiphanies of the Gods, Purification Rituals and the Empyrean Power

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