• Horapollo (from Horus Apollo; ‹See Tfd›Greek: Ὡραπόλλων) (5th century?) is the supposed author of a treatise, titled Hieroglyphica, on Egyptian hieroglyphs...
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    Flaminius retired from the command of the cavalry for the same reason. Horapollo describes the rat as a symbol of destruction. According to Herodotus,...
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    cyclical nature of the year. In his 5th century work on hieroglyphics, Horapollo makes a further distinction between a serpent that hides its tail under...
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    Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous: Hieroglyphic Semantics in Late Antiquity. Routledge. p. xiii. ISBN 9781351376532. Laufer however called Horapollo an "Egyptian...
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    probably written in the fourth century AD and attributed to a man named Horapollo. It discusses the meanings of individual hieroglyphs, though not how those...
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    ISBN 978-0-684-19056-3. Rollet, Pierre (1993). Interprétation des hiéroglyphes de Horapollo (in French). M. Petit. Watts, P.M. (1985). Prophecy and Discovery: On...
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  • the Netherlands Michael Isengrin, 16th-century printer in Basel, see Horapollo Wolfpack Isegrim, a German wolfpack of World War II Isegrim & Reineke...
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    ISBN 978-90-04-28173-8. Retrieved 17 November 2021. Niliacus, Horapollo (2020). The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo. Princeton University Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-691-21506-8...
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    interest in Ancient Egypt, notably the discovery of the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo, and first encounters with the Chinese script directed efforts towards...
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    known as the Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, from 394. The Hieroglyphica of Horapollo (c. 5th century) appears to retain some genuine knowledge about the writing...
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  • the coeducational school of the late 5th-century Alexandrian professor Horapollo, where students of different religions and philosophies studied together...
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    of the same sex. The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, written in the 4th century AD by the Egyptian writer Horapollo, mentions "hermaphroditism" in hyenas...
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    contrast to the Greek and Roman alphabets. In the 5th century, the priest Horapollo wrote Hieroglyphica, an explanation of almost 200 glyphs. His work was...
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    symbolism of which is partly informed by Pirckheimer's translation of Horapollo's Hieroglyphica. The design program and explanations were devised by Johannes...
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  • inauguration Gwenc'hlan, legendary as the last Breton bard and druid Horapollo, 5th-century Egyptian pagan writer Historic Germanic pagans: Albruna,...
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  • Syrianus' teachings back to Alexandria, where he lectured in the school of Horapollo, receiving an income from the state. He died c. 450 AD[citation needed]...
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    back with him to Italy. This later became known as the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo, which played a considerable role both in humanistic thinking and in art...
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    Theodosius I (r. 379–395 AD). In the 4th century AD, the Hellenized Egyptian Horapollo compiled a survey of almost two hundred Egyptian hieroglyphs and provided...
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  • Lascaris. Among his works is a Latin translation of the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo and Aristarchus's On the Sizes and Distances (1488). The De expetendis...
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  • classical Hellenistic tradition with Christian thought. His teacher was Horapollo the grammarian from the village Phenebythis. He was the author of a book...
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    Oracles that enthused many humanists following the publication in 1505 of Horapollo's Ἱερογλυφικά (Hieroglyphica), the book discovered in 1419 by Cristoforo...
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  • Neo-Platonist philosopher Heraescus, possibly the uncle and father-in-law of Horapollo, was buried according to pagan rites. One of the final bastions of Egyptian...
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    Willibald Pirckheimer's 1514 translation of the Hieroglyphica by Roman author Horapollo. Emperor Maximilian, as patron of the Triumphal Arch, commissioned this...
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    embroiled in a conflict between Christians and pagans in connection with the Horapollo affair. It was also there he met Severus, who was later to become a notable...
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  • in Egypt Homosexuality in ancient Egypt Hor Hor (high steward) Hor-Aha Horapollo Horbaef Horemheb Horemkhauef Hori (high priest) Hori (High Priest of Osiris)...
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    developed further in sixteenth century emblems. Inspired by the work of Horapollo, this allegorical art form was adopted by alchemists and used in the engravings...
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  • European Philosophy (1929) A Primer for Critics (1937) The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, translation of the original work (1950) Dominant Themes in Modern Philosophy...
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    frenzy of popularity surrounding the rediscovery of the Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, but was not published until after the initial excitement had subsided...
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  • Nostradamus (O Books, 2003) Rollet, P. (ed), Interprétation des hiéroglyphes de Horapollo (Marcel Petit, 1993). Manuel Sanchez, Nostradamus Orus Apolo (Lulu, 2016)...
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  • Allegoriae Homericae Aldus Manutius Venice Printed together with Aesop. Ps.-Horapollo, Hieroglyphica Cornutus, Theologiae Graecae compendium 1508-1509 Aristoteles...
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