Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous

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

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Hieroglyphic Signs;Horapollo's Hieroglyphica;Hieroglyphic Egyptian;Horapollo Nilous;Demotic Magical Papyri;Ancient Philosophy;Hieroglyphic Tradition;Hieroglyphs;Bipartite Theory;Late Antique philosophy;Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs;Greek philosophy;Gardiner's Sign List;Neoplatonism;Egyptian Provenance;Natural History Tradition;Decipherment Project;Hieroglyphic Expression;Philological Criticism;Vice Versa;Tripartite Theory;Martianus Capella;Intellective Interpretation;Neoplatonic Commentators;Hieroglyphic Script;PINTAIL DUCK;Younger Man;Perceptible Item;Alphabetic Consonants;Index Rerum;Vita Apollonii