Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks

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

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Index 4