Proclus' on the Hieratic Art According to the Greeks

Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69754-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition

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 conceptual blending of ritual actions (teletai, e.g. the role of statues, incenses, synthêmata, symbols, purifications, invocations and epiphanies) and philosophical concepts (e.g. union of many powers, ‘one and many’, symphathy, natural sympathies, attraction, mixing and division).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pachoumi, Eleni

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 ??????? pe?? t?? ?a?’ ?????a? ?e?at???? t?????, “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

Über Autor(innen)

Eleni Pachoumi is currently an academic visiting fellow at Oxford University. She has published the monograph The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri (Mohr Siebeck, 2017), co-edited the volume Praying and Contemplating in Late Antiquity: Religious and Philosophical Interactions (Mohr Siebeck, 2018), and edited the volume Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Ancient Greek and Near Eastern Worlds (Brill, 2022).