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Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks
Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary
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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).
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).
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
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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