Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks : Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary /

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 conce...

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Main Author: Pachoumi, Eleni (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition ; 33.

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Proclus, > approximately 410-485. > On the hieratic art according to the Greeks.

Greece > Religion.

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Call Number: B701.O53

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Table of Contents:

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Proclus' Life and on the Orphic and Chaldaean Theologies
2 Proclus' Works
3 Proclus' on the Hieratic Art and his Lost Works
4 Manuscripts
5 Text, Transmission, Modern Studies
6 The Title Πρόκλου περὶ τῆς καθ' Ἕλληνας ἱερατικῆς τέχνης, "Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks "
7 Proclus' on the Hieratic Art : Book Description
Critical Apparatus
Text and Translation
Commentary
Chapter 1: Hieratic Art-Theurgy, Teletai and Invocations, Sympathy, Heliotropes and Luminaries
Chapter 2: The Stages of the Hieratic/Theurgic Art
Chapter 3: The Lotus, the Sun, and the Stones
Chapter 4: Lions and Cocks, Systaseis and Symbols
Chapter 5: Mixing, One and Many, Helios, Statues and Synthêmata
Chapter 6: Direct Revelations / Epiphanies of the Gods, Purification Rituals and the Empyrean Power
Chapter 7: Energeia, "Activity"
Appendix: MS Vallicellianus F 20
Bibliography
Index 1
Index 2
Index 3
Index 4.

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