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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

he went with his brother Euoptius to Alexandria, where he became an enthusiastic Neoplatonist and disciple of Hypatia. Between 395 and 399, he spent...

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

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...

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

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

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)...

studies produced a number of substances, which were later classified as particular chemical compounds or mixtures of compounds. Many of these terms were in...

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...

In alchemy, the Magnum Opus or Great Work is a term for the process of working with the prima materia to create the philosopher's stone. It has been used...

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

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

Secretorum (Latin, 'Secret of secrets'), also known as the Sirr al-Asrar (Arabic: كتاب سر الأسرار, lit. 'The Secret Book of Secrets'), is a treatise which...

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...

alchemical digestion. Etymologically, it descends from a number of Arabic texts of the period of the Caliphate which use the term "al-tannoor" in talismanic...

The Aurora consurgens is an alchemical treatise of the 15th century famous for the rich illuminations that accompany it in some manuscripts.: §38–44  While...

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...