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236:, 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 the Egyptian priesthood of the 5th century. 512: 239:
Though a very large proportion of the statements seem absurd and cannot be accounted for by anything known in the latest and most fanciful usage, there is ample evidence in both books, in individual cases, that the tradition of the values of the hieroglyphic signs was not yet extinct in the days of
208:) original into Greek by a certain Philippus, of whom nothing is known. The inferior Greek of the translation, and the character of the additions in the second book point to its being of late date; some have even assigned it to the 15th century. The text was discovered in 1419 on the island of 102:
Both the younger and elder Horapollo, the grandfather, may be characterized as students of both the Egyptian god-worship tradition and Greek philosophy, but the lost Egyptian learning they tried to cobble together and reconstruct were a mix of the genuine and spurious.
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He was subject to torture in interrogation about the whereabouts of Harpocras. He had harbored secret belief in the older Egyptian gods, but abandoned them after the incident, and either converted to (or away from) Christianity.
585: 220:(it is today kept at the Biblioteca Laurenziana, Plut. 69,27). By the end of the 15th century, the text became immensely popular among humanists and was translated into Latin by 699: 532: 661: 558: 527: 154:, whose treatises on animals impacted Byzantine and Arabic scientific literature, was one of his pupils. It is to the elder Horapollo the 681: 642: 594: 427: 374: 356: 338: 303:
Editions by C. Leemans (1835) and A. T. Cory (1840) with English translation and notes; see also G. Rathgeber in Ersch and Gruber's
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The second part of book II treats animal symbolism and allegory, in the Greek tradition, essentially derived from
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was attributed by most 16th-century editors, although there were more occult opinions, identifying Horapollo with
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The Suda, gives the names of two men named Horapollo, and one or the other may have been the author of
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This approach of symbolic speculation about hieroglyphs (many of which were originally simple
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous: Hieroglyphic Semantics in Late Antiquity
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consists of two books, containing a total of 189 explanations of
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According to the Suda, the younger Horapollo was force to flee
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La Ricerca della Lingua Perfetta nella Cultura Europea
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Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Greek
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Suda On Line", tr. David Whitehead. 5 September 2003
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because he was accused of plotting a revolt against
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Index

Hieroglyphica
Horus
Apollo
Greek
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Greek
Suda
Egyptian priesthood
Menouthis
Alexandria
Zeno
grammarian
Phanebytis
Theodosius II
Zeno
Sophocles
Alcaeus of Mytilene
Homer
Ancient Greek
Photius
Alexandria
Timotheus of Gaza
Horus
pharaoh
the Christians
Isis
Osiris
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Coptic
Andros

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