The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous : Hieroglyphic Semantics in Late Antiquity (Paperback)

PrefaceIntroduction1 The Text and Author of the Hieroglyphica2 Linguistic Signs2.1 The Historical Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs2.2 Meaning in Horapollo2.3 Neoplatonic Theories of Meaning3 Natural Signs3.1 The Graeco-Roman Reception of the Tradition3.2 Genre: Lexicon or Encyclopedia?3.3 Natural and Artefactual Signs in Horapollo4 Divine Symbols4.1 The Christian-Pagan Controversy4.2 The Allegory of Hieroglyphic Egyptian4.3 Neoplatonic Hieroglyphics5 The Cosmos of the Hieroglyphica5.1 Horapollo’s Symbolic Hieroglyphs5.2 Horapollo’s Metaphysics5.3 Sensible Nature and the Intelligible CosmosConclusion: Re-reading the HieroglyphicaAppendixesAppendix 1: Horapollo’s Hieroglyphs and their MeaningsAppendix 2: The Egyptian Content of the HieroglyphicaAppendix 3: The Coptic Content of the HieroglyphicaBibliographyText EditionsSecondary TextsOther Primary Texts CitedOther Secondary Texts Cited