TY  - BOOK
AU  - Niliacus,Horapollo
AU  - Boas,George
TI  - The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo
T2  - Bollingen Series (General)
SN  - 9780691215068
AV  - BL603 .H6713 1993eb
U1  - 291.3/7 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Emblems
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Hieroglyphics
KW  - Symbolism
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt (see also Ancient / Egypt)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Absence of ants
KW  - Aphrodite
KW  - Birth, deformed
KW  - Boundaries
KW  - Circle
KW  - Copulation
KW  - Death
KW  - Discrimination
KW  - Distribution of justice
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Eternity
KW  - Filial affection
KW  - Foreknowledge
KW  - Gluttony
KW  - Gratitude
KW  - Heavens
KW  - Hephaistus
KW  - Horoscopist
KW  - Impurity
KW  - Infinity
KW  - Judge
KW  - Lawlessness
KW  - Loins
KW  - Magistrate
KW  - Measurement
KW  - Night
KW  - Pederasty
KW  - Plunderer
KW  - Recklessness
KW  - Sluggishness
KW  - Sublime
KW  - Temperance
KW  - Twilight
KW  - Unanimity
KW  - Unstable man
KW  - Victory
KW  - Wasp
KW  - Widow
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations --; Foreword (1993) --; Preface --; Introduction --; Notes to Introduction --; THE HIEROGLYPHICS, BOOK ONE --; THE HIEROGLYPHICS, BOOK TWO --; Appendix --; Index of Symbols --; Index of Subjects Symbolized --; MYTHOS: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology; restricted access
N2  - 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 Dürer on the verso pages of his copy of a Latin translation
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