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Horapollo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Horapollo (from Horus Apollo, Ὡραπόλλων) is supposed author of a treatise on Egyptian hieroglyphs, extant in a Greek translation by one Philippus, titled Hieroglyphica, dating to about the 5th century. Horapollo is mentioned by Suda (ω 159) as one of the last leaders of Ancient Egyptian priesthood, at a school in Menouthis, near Alexandria, during the reign of Zeno (474–491 AD). According to Susa, Horapollo had to flee because he was accused of plotting a revolt against the Christians, and his temple to Isis and Osiris was destroyed. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horapollo   (614 words)

The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone, James Cross Giblin - HarperChildrens For example, a Greek writer named Horapollo said correctly that the picture of a goose stood for the word "son." But then he explained that this was because geese took special care of their young, which was completely inaccurate. Horapollo offered an even more unlikely explanation of a hieroglyph drawn in the form of a vulture. The writings of Horapollo circulated widely throughout Europe and influenced the study of hieroglyphs for centuries to come. harperchildrens.com /teacher/catalog/excerpt_xml.asp?isbn=0064461378   (1061 words)

Horapollo, Hieroglyphica We know of Horapollo through Suda, who mentions him in ω 159 (Ὡραπόλλων) as the leader of one of the last pagan schools of Menouthis, near Alexandria, during the reign of Emperor Zeno (474-491), from where he was forced to flee when he became involved in a revolt against the Christians. Nevertheless, in the same entry, Suda alludes to another Horapollo – probably the former’s uncle – a grammarian from Phanebytis during the reign of Theodosius II (408-450) who taught in Alexandria and Constantinople. Other fragments from Suda help us to reconstruct Horapollo’s intellectual world: select philosophical circles, of an élite educational background, who carefully gathered together the last traces of the Egyptian past, and admired the relics of ancient cults, reinterpreting that legacy in the light of contemporary Neoplatonism. www.studiolum.com /en/cd08-horapollo.htm   (3025 words)

[No title] Horapollo never took his eyes off Orion, whom he now saw for the first time, and his features put on a darkening and menacing expression. At this Horapollo stepped up to Alexander, his eyes flashing with rage, and demanded that the intruder should be forbidden to speak; but the commanding eye of the new-comer rested on the dyer, who bowed his head and allowed him to proceed. In the house they were met by Horapollo, but Joanna and Pulcheria returned his greeting with a cold bow, while Mary purposely turned her back on him. www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext04/ge88v10.txt   (12055 words)

[No title] Horapollo made his way home to his new quarters from the court of justice with knit and gloomy brows. Horapollo could guess that the Jew had come only to warn the women against him and, without vouchsafing him a glance, he went into the dining-room. His push had sent Horapollo tottering to some distance; and when the old man had pulled himself together, to throw himself once more on his victim, he found himself the centre of a fight. www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext04/ge89v10.txt   (16758 words)

Myomancy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cato replied that the prodigy would have been much greater if the shoe had gnawed a rat. Horapollo describes the rat as a symbol of destruction. The Hebrew name of this animal is from a root which signifies to separate, divide, or judge; and it had been remarked by one of the commentators on Horapollo that the mouse has a finely discriminating taste. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Myomancy   (308 words)

997 The first thing is to find remained inexorable, promising only to call the council together when the from the balcony that Horapollo knew of a sacrifice which would cause the people should be invited to give their consent. In the time of their children might go home in all confidence, and await the future with new the venerable Horapollo, had a powerful effect. The crowd hallooed with again and again, and it was addressed, not merely to the old man who had as if a fearful load had fallen from their souls. www.factspider.com /99/997.html   (289 words)

WU Libraries Special Collections - Signs and Symbols Horapollo's work, in essence, is an explanation of Egyptian hieroglyphs interpreted as visual forms of abstract ideas, in other words, as emblems. This somewhat remarkable book is the first edition of the author's poem "In Praise of the Holy Cross." The piece is printed as a figure poem, that is, a poem over which are superimposed a variety of figures. Thus, like Horapollo, he endeavors to explain Egyptian hieroglyphs as abstract concepts in visual form, as pictorial symbols revealing divine truths. library.wustl.edu /units/spec/rarebooks/semeiology/signs.html   (1124 words)

Schulers Books (The Bride of the Nile, Volume 12. - 1/12) It was in feverish anxiety, and more eagerly than any other bystander, that Paula and Orion kept their eyes fixed on the Jew's hands and lips; after weighing it once, he did so a second time. The venerable Horapollo had already made them out, and was quite ready to read to the judges all that the accused--who by his own account, was a spotless dove--had written in his innocence and truthfulness for his fair one. But the terrible accusation cast at him by the hated Patrician maiden, ascribing his removal to Rufinus house to a motive which, in truth, had been far from his, had so enraged and agitated him that his old lungs, at all times feeble, refused their office. schulers.com /books/ge/b/The_Bride_of_the_Nile__Volume_12_   (1300 words)

[No title] Before Horapollo was a half-empty plate; he had swallowed his meal less rapidly than his companion, and looked disapprovingly at the leech, who drank off his wine and water as he stood, whereas he generally would sit and enjoy it as he talked to the old man of matters light or grave. Horapollo sat listening in astonishment, shaking his head disapprovingly, while the physician muttered curses. Then both again were silent; till Horapollo rose, and taking his staff, also paced the room while he murmured, half to himself and half to his younger friend "They are two quiet, reasonable women. library.beau.org /gutenberg/etext04/ge86v10.txt   (13577 words)

The Bride of the Nile by Georg Ebers: Chapter XVIII. The giant said nothing, but he stooped, and to her delight, a moment later she had her feet on his arms, which he folded across his chest, and was settling herself on his broad shoulder whence she could survey men and things as from a tower. At this moment the blare of a tuba rang out from the Senate-house across the square, through the suffocatingly hot, quivering air; a sudden silence fell and spread till, when a man opened his mouth to shout or to speak, a neighbor gave him a shove and bid him hold his tongue. Here the speaker was interrupted by a cry of: "Hail Horapollo, the Deliverer!" and thousands took it up and expressed their satisfaction and gratitude by loud shouting. www.online-literature.com /georg-ebers/bride-of-the-nile/44   (4229 words)

The Bride Of The Nile — Volume 08 by Georg Ebers eBook by BookRags Horapollo was sitting, just as he had sat the night before, at his writing-table with his scrolls and his three lamps, a slave below, snoring while he awaited his master’s pleasure. He threw himself on the divan and told Horapollo all that had passed between him and Orion. At the same time,” and he started to his feet, “even if I help him to bring the poor little girl away from that demented old hag, I cannot and will not continue to be her physician. www.bookrags.com /ebooks/5524/2.html   (367 words)

Myomancy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Horapollo, in his curious study of Egyptian Hieroglyphics, described the rat as the symbol of destruction, and that the Hebrew name for the animal came from the root meaning separate, divide, or judge. One of the commentators on Horapollo remarked that the rat had a finely discriminating taste. An Egyptian manuscript in the Biblotheque Royale in Paris contains a representation of a soul going to judgment, in which one of the figures is depicted as having a head of a rat, and having a well-known wig. www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/m/myomancy.html   (250 words)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1998.07.16   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) He does not repeat in this chapter a suggestion recently made in his foreword to the reprint of G. Boas, The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo (Princeton 1993), p. xvi, that Alberti was probably induced by a reading of Horapollo to analyse hieroglyphics as a universal symbolic language. Horapollo is mentioned by G. in passing in the chapter on Pico (p. ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1998/1998-07-16.html   (1170 words)

TASCHEN Books: Classics - Reading Room - Emblematic ecstasy (5) In the 16th century these devices became the subject of their own literature, and many were adopted into emblem books, as demonstrated by our own booklet (cf. Both devices and emblems frequently took their motifs from The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, a collection of symbols that had been discovered in 1419 on an island in the Greek Cyclades and brought to Italy. Ascribed to Horapollo, the Hieroglyphics was believed to document the hieroglyphs of Ancient Egyptian picture writing. www.taschen.com /pages/en/excerpts/classics/show/5/107.htm   (425 words)

ARTEMIDORUS: NIPHUS. HORAPOLLO., Artemidori de somniorum interpretatione libri quinque a Iano Cornario latina lingua ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) HORAPOLLO., Artemidori de somniorum interpretatione libri quinque a Iano Cornario latina lingua conscripti. Hervagius here adds to it Horapollo in Trebatio's translation which, more concise than Fasanino's was the version in which this This item is listed on Bibliopoly by Diana Parikian; click here for further details. www.polybiblio.com /parikian/a6.html   (253 words)

Georg Ebers : The Bride of the Nile : Chapter IX. Philippus started up from the divan on which he had been reclining at breakfast with his old friend. Philippus, however, gave him to understand that Horapollo was his second self; and the hunch-back went on to tell him what he had seen, and how his beloved master had met his end. The gardener knew full well how much depended on his silence; Philippus tacitly agreed to the old man's arrangement, but for the present he avoided discussing the matter with the women. www.classicreader.com /read.php/sid./bookid.2371/sec.35   (3787 words)

Ammonius Damascius, whose History is the source of most details about Ammonius' life, greatly admired Aedesia for her piety and charity, and while still a young student of rhetoric he gave her eulogy at Horapollo's school. Although the public stipend given her after Hermeias' death, from the time Ammonius and his younger brother Heliodorus were small, was continued by the Alexandrians until her sons' maturity, Damascius says that Aedesia's charitable giving left her sons in debt on her death in old age (ca. The school founded by Horapollo, where after Hermeias joined it the two main courses of study were rhetoric and philosophy, was a hub of the ‘Hellenic’ pagan learning, religion and culture. plato.stanford.edu /entries/ammonius   (5046 words)

Celestial Phenomena : Colin McCahon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) The fifth century Egyptian scholar Horapollo compiled approximately two hundred symbols and signs in his text Hieroglyphica. In the sixteenth century his catalogue was published in various translations and illustrated by artists such as Albrect Duerer. In this way, by mid sixteenth century, Horapollo's Hieroglyphica became the source for the development of emblems and symbols used in the Passion cycle imagery. www.astropa.unipa.it /INSAPIII/Abstracts/WhiteJ.htm   (229 words)

Athanasius Kircher and the Egyptian Oedipus His sources for the hieroglyphs themselves were hopelessly inaccurate: most importantly, they included a treatise on the script attributed to one Horapollo, a text composed in Egypt at the very end of the Roman Empire (fourth century CE). This tract, whose rediscovery had caused a considerable stir in the fifteenth century, was written in Greek, the bureaucratic language first imposed on Egypt by the Ptolemies and continued by the Romans. The long ascendancy of Greek in Egypt meant that scholars like Horapollo knew only the barest remnants of hieroglyphics. fathom.lib.uchicago.edu /1/777777122590   (2693 words)

The Basilisk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) It also is one of the factors that associate it with kings. The Egyptian Horapollo wrote of the basilisk in his Hieroglyphica (c. In it he says, "…this the Egyptians call Ouraion, but the Greeks a Basilisk. webhome.idirect.com /~donlong/monsters/Html/Basilisk.htm   (4372 words)

Emblem Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) The inspiration for the Emblemists - The "Hieroglypica" of Horapollo In 1419, a monk discovered a manuscript from the fifth century known as the "Hieroglyphica" of Horus Apollo or Horapollo on the Greek island of Andros. It was alleged to be a Greek translation of an Egyptian work which explained the hidden meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs. www.netnik.com /emblemata   (383 words)

Find in a Library: The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Find in a Library: The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo To find this item in a library, enter a postal code, state, province, or country in the field above. WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/b084263e93f76a78.html   (43 words)

Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 93008657   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 93008657 Publisher description for The hieroglyphics of Horapollo / translated by George Boas ; with a new foreword by Anthony Grafton. Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog www.loc.gov /catdir/description/prin021/93008657.html   (183 words)

Stirling Maxwell Emblem Catalogue SM597 Hoogstraten, Frans van Het voorhof der ziele. SM600 Horapollo De la signification des notes hieroglyphiques. SM597(1) Hoogstraten, Jan van Het voorhof der ziele. special.lib.gla.ac.uk /collection/stirlingemblem.html   (7121 words)

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