Horapollo (from Horus Apollo, Ὡραπόλλων) is supposed author of a treatise on Egyptian hieroglyphs, extant in a Greek translation by one Philippus, titled Hieroglyphica, dating to about the 5th century. Horus is an ancient god of Egyptian mythology, whose cult survived so long that he evolved dramatically over time and gained many names. ... Statue of Apollo at the British Museum Apollo (Greek: Απόλλων, Apóllōn; Απελλων) is a god in Greek and Roman mythology, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin of Artemis (goddess of the hunt), one of the most important and many-sided of the Olympian divinities. ... Hieroglyphs are a system of writing used by the Ancient Egyptians, using a combination of logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements. ... // Overview Events Romulus Augustus, Last Western Roman Emperor 410: Rome sacked by Visigoths 452: Pope Leo I allegedly meets personally with Attila the Hun and convinces him not to sack Rome 439: Vandals conquer Carthage At some point after 440, the Anglo-Saxons settle in Britain. ...

Horapollo

Horapollo is mentioned by Suda (ω 159) as one of the last leaders of Ancient Egyptian priesthood, at a school in Menouthis, near Alexandria, during the reign of Zeno (474–491 AD). According to Susa, Horapollo had to flee because he was accused of plotting a revolt against the Christians, and his temple to Isis and Osiris was destroyed. Horapollo was later captured and after torture converted to Christianity. Another, earlier, Horapollo alluded to by Suda was a grammarian from Phanebytis, under Theodosius II (408–450 AD). To this Horapollo the Hieroglyphica was attributed by most 16th century editors, although there were more occult opinions, identifying Horapollo with Horus himself, or a with a pharaoh. Suda (Σουδα or alternatively Suidas) is a massive 10th century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopædia of the ancient Mediterranean world. ... Antiquity and modernity stand cheek-by-jowl in Egypts chief Mediterranean seaport Located on the Mediterranean Sea coast, Alexandria Αλεξάνδρεια (in Arabic, الإسكندرية, transliterated al-ʼIskandariyyah) is the chief seaport in Egypt, and that countrys second largest city, and the capital of the Al Iskandariyah governate. ... Zeno may mean: a person Zeno (emperor) (c. ... Events January 18 - Leo II briefly becomes Byzantine emperor. ... Events AElle conquers the fortified Roman town of Anderida through siegecraft. ... This article is about the religous people known as Christians. ... Isis is a goddess in the Egyptian belief. ... Osiris (Greek language, also Usiris; the Egyptian language name is variously transliterated Asar, Aser, Ausar, or Ausare) is the Egyptian God of the dead and the underworld. ... Theodosius II Flavius Theodosius II (April, 401 - July 28, 450 ). The eldest son of Eudoxia and Arcadius who at the age of 7 became the Roman Emperor of the East. ... Events Theodosius II succeeds his father Arcadius as Emperor of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire In the summer of this year, the usurper Constantine III captures Spain, destroying the loyalist forces defending it. ... Events August 25 - Marcian proclaimed Eastern Roman Emperor by Aspar and Pulcheria. ... Horus is an ancient god of Egyptian mythology, whose cult survived so long that he evolved dramatically over time and gained many names. ... Pharaoh (Arabic فرعون ) (Hebrew פַּרְעֹה ); is a title used to refer to the kings (of godly status) in ancient Egypt. ...

Hieroglyphica

The text of the Hieroglyphica consists of two books, containing a total of 189 explanations of Egyptian hieroglyphs. The text was discovered in 1422 on the island of Andros, and was taken to Florence by Cristoforo Buondelmonti (it is today kept at the Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 69,27). By the end of the 15th century, the text became immensly popular among humanists, with a first printed edition of the text appearing in 1505, initiating a long sequence of editions and translations. From the 18th century, the book's authenticity was called into question, but modern Egyptology regards at least the first book as based on real knowledge of hieroglyphs, although confused, and with baroque symbolism and theological speculation, and the book may well originate with the latest remnants of Egyptian priesthood of the 5th century. Hieroglyphs are a system of writing used by the Ancient Egyptians, using a combination of logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements. ... Events August 31 - Henry VI becomes King of England. ... Andros, or Andro (Greek: )Άνδρος, an island of the Greek archipelago, the most northerly of the Cyclades, approximately 10 km (6 miles) south east of Euboea, and about 3 km (about 2 miles) north of Tinos. ... Founded 59 BC as Florentia Region Tuscany Mayor Leonardo Domenici (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  102 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 356,000 almost 500,000 3,453/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 43°47 N 11°15 E www. ... 1505 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... // Overview Events Romulus Augustus, Last Western Roman Emperor 410: Rome sacked by Visigoths 452: Pope Leo I allegedly meets personally with Attila the Hun and convinces him not to sack Rome 439: Vandals conquer Carthage At some point after 440, the Anglo-Saxons settle in Britain. ...

This approach of symbolic speculation about hieroglyphs (many of which were originally simple syllabic signs) was popular during Hellenism, whence the early Humanists, down to Athanasius Kirchner, inherited the preconception of the hieroglyphs as a magical, symbolic, ideographic script. A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent (or approximate) syllables, which make up words. ... The term Hellenistic (established by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen) in the history of the ancient world is used to refer to the shift from a culture dominated by ethnic Greeks, however scattered geographically, to a culture dominated by Greek-speakers of whatever ethnicity, and from the political dominance... Athanasius Kircher Athanasius Kircher (sometimes spelt Kirchner) (May 2, 1601?–27 November 1680) was a 17th century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology and medicine. ...

The second part of book II treats animal symbolism and allegory, essentially derived from Aristotle, Aelian, Pliny and Artemidorus, and are probably an addition by the Greek translator. Aristotle (Ancient Greek: AristotelÄ“s 384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, who studied with Plato and taught Alexander the Great. ... The name Aelian may refer to one of two people: Aelianus Tacticus, a Greek military writer of the 2nd century, who lived in Rome Claudius Aelianus, a Roman teacher and historian of the 3rd century, who wrote in Greek This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other... Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19c portrait. ... Artemidorus Daldianus or Ephesius was a professional diviner and author known for an extant five-volume Greek work Oneirocritica, (English: The Interpretation of Dreams). ...

Editions

• Aldus Manutius, Venice 1505
• a Latin translation was begun by Willibald Pirckheimer in 1512 at the request of Emperor Maximilian I. (MS. Vienna, Nationalbibliothek, ed. Giehlow 1915)
• Bernardino Trebazio, Augsburg 1515 (first Latin translation), reprinted Basel 1518, Paris 1530, Basel 1534, Venice 1538, Lyon 1542, Lyon 1626
• Pierre Vidoue, Paris 1521
• Filippo Fasianino, Bologna 1517 (second Latin translation)
• MS by Michel Nostradamus, 1540s, ed. Pierre Rollet 1968
• Kerver, Paris 1543 (first French translation, and first illustrated edition)
• Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, Venice 1547 (first Italian translation)
• Jacques Kerver, Paris 1548 (Greek, with a Latin translation by Jean Mercier), reprinted by Mercier in 1551
• Jacques Kerver, Paris 1553 (Mercier’s 1548 Latin translation with a French translation)
• Heinrich Petri, Basel 1554 (first German translation)
• Antonio Sanahuja, Valencia 1556
• Galliot du Pré, Paris 1574
• David HoeschelAugsburg 1595 (based on the MS Monacense graec. 419 of Augsburg) Reprinted Augsburg 1606, Frankfurt 1614, Leipzig 1626 (Latin only), Cologne 1631, Frankfurt 1678.
• Aloisii Zanetti, Rome 1597:
• Nicolas Caussin, Paris 1618: Greek and Latin, entitled Electorum symbolorum et parabolarum historicarum syntagmata, and reprinted as De symbolica Aegyptiorum sapientiae Cologne 1622, 1631, 1654, Paris 1634, 1647.
• M. L. Charlois, Utrecht 1727
• Musier, Amsterdam, Paris 1779 (French translation by Martin Requier)
• Konrad Leemans, J. Müller, Amsterdam 1835
• Alexander Turner Cory, Pickering, London 1839, reprinted 1840, 1987.
• Francesco Sbordone, Naples 1940
• Badouin Van de Walle and Jozef Vergote, Brussels 1943 (French translation)
• Franz Boas, New York 1950 (English translation), reprinted 1993
• Jesús María González de Zárate, María José García Sole, Akal, Madrid 1991 (Spanish translation)
• Rizzoli, Milan 1996

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See also

• Athanasius Kirchner
• Hermes Trismegistos

Athanasius Kircher Athanasius Kircher (sometimes spelt Kirchner) (May 2, 1601?–27 November 1680) was a 17th century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology and medicine. ... Hermes Trismegistus (Greek for Hermes the thrice-greatest, Greek: Ερμης ο Τρισμεγιστος) or Mercurius ter Maximus in Latin, is the syncretism of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth. ...

External links

• Horapollo (studiolum.com)
• Horapollo, Delli segni hierogliphici, Venecia 1547 etext of Ferrari's edition (studiolum.com)
• facsimile of a page of the 1543 edition