Agathodaemon of Alexandria (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαθοδαίμων Ἀλεξανδρεὺς, Agathodaímōn Alexandreùs) was a Greek or Hellenized Egyptian cartographer, presumably...

Ptolemaic Alexandria. Vol. I. Oxford: Claredon Press. p. 210. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Agathodaemon", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and...

Egyptian alchemist Agathodaemon of Alexandria, an Egyptian cartographer of uncertain date connected with Ptolemy's Geography Agathodaemon, a Martian canal...

inscription in several of the earliest surviving manuscripts, it is traditionally credited to Agathodaemon of Alexandria. Notable features of Ptolemy's map is...

Stephanus of Alexandria (Greek: Στέφανος Αλεξανδρεύς; fl. c. 580 – c. 640) was a Byzantine philosopher and teacher who, besides philosophy in the Neo-Platonic...

leaves of ancient Egypt and supporting an architrave with a relief of a central winged sun-disk flanked by Horus falcons. A carved Agathodaemon in the...

Agathodaemon (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαθοδαίμων, Agathodaímōn; c. 300) was an alchemist in late Roman Egypt, known only from fragments quoted in medieval alchemical...

Bolbitine (later the Rosetta) the Canopic (also called the Herakleotic, Agathodaemon) Alexandrian (Schedia canal) Colynthin (Canopic) Agnu (Rosetta) Parollos...

Rosenkreuz Abraham Eleazar Agathodaemon Chymes Cleopatra the Alchemist Mary the Jewess Moses of Alexandria Olympiodorus of Thebes (c. 400) Paphnutia the...

Italy Copper statuette of Serapis Agathodaemon, in National Archaeological Museum, Athens Youtie, H. (1948). "The kline of Serapis". The Harvard Theological...

Moses of Alexandria, often known simply as Moses or Moses the Alchemist, was an early alchemist who wrote Greek alchemical texts around the first or second...

to have spoken of the union of opposites: Join the male and the female, and you will find what is sought. Mary, along with Agathodaemon, Pseudo-Democritus...

Admetus as a herdsman. The romantic nature of their relationship was first described by Callimachus of Alexandria, who wrote that Apollo was "fired with love"...

Stephen of Alexandria wrote a work called De Chrysopoeia. Chrysopoeia is also the title of a 1515 poem by Giovanni Augurello. Images from Chrysopeoia of Cleopatra...

ornaments of Roman times, the statuette, probably imported from the area of Alexandria, reproduces with a few modifications the statuary type of Aphrodite...

Alexandria: According to Epiphanius, a temple of Kore existed in Alexandria. He describes a celebration of the birth of Aion from Kore the Virgin which took place...

known as Agathodaemon in the old canal maps), has a length of 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi) and a depth of up to 7 kilometres (4.3 mi). The length of Valles...

The philosopher's stone is a mythic alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold or silver; it was also known as "the...

and myth, pp.179 .Oxford University Press, p.179 ανησιδώρα Hesychius of Alexandria s.v. Scholiast on Theocritus, 2.12 Nilsson Vol I, p.458 M.L.West (2007)...

Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 1.1177–1357. Sosibius, in Hesychius of Alexandria's Lexicon Apollodorus 2.5.8; Ptolemaeus Chennus, 147b, in Photius's Bibliotheca...

Greek Μαριανός, Marianos), himself supposedly a pupil of the philosopher Stephanus of Alexandria (fl. early seventh century). Widely popular among later...

other. The start of Western alchemy may generally be traced to ancient and Hellenistic Egypt, where the city of Alexandria was a center of alchemical knowledge...

Compare with Aeschylus, Heliades (Daughters of Helios) fr. 70 Sommerstein [= fr. 70 Radt] [= Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, 5.14.114.4 = Eusebius, Praeparatio...

appears to have been active in Alexandria in the 3rd century or 4th century A.D. She is associated with the school of alchemy typified by Mary the Jewess...

still consisting of two vessels connected by a tube, used for distillation of liquids. The complete distilling apparatus consists of three parts: the...

Cardinal Jean de La Rochetaillée Jean de Roquetaillade, also known as John of Rupescissa, (ca. 1310 – between 1366 and 1370) was a French Franciscan alchemist...

authors of Greek and Latin works from Hellenistic period onwards. Together with Pseudo-Zoroaster and Pseudo-Hystaspes, Ostanes belongs to the group of pseudepigraphical...

Siculus, 5.66.3; Clement of Alexandria, Recognitions 31. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface Richard Janko, "Forgetfulness in the Golden Tablets of Memory", Classical...

years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry". Van Helmont is remembered...

unpleasant or fetid (offensive) smell. The Greek Christian writer Clement of Alexandria deliberately confounded ichor in its medical sense as a foul-smelling...