Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Nilous - Hieroglyphic Semantics in Late Antiquity

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
1 The Text and Author of the Hieroglyphica
2 Linguistic Signs
2.1 The Historical Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
2.2 Meaning in Horapollo
2.3 Neoplatonic Theories of Meaning
3 Natural Signs
3.1 The Graeco-Roman Reception of the Tradition
3.2 Genre: Lexicon or Encyclopedia?
3.3 Natural and Artefactual Signs in Horapollo
4 Divine Symbols
4.1 The Christian-Pagan Controversy
4.2 The Allegory of Hieroglyphic Egyptian
4.3 Neoplatonic Hieroglyphics
5 The Cosmos of the Hieroglyphica
5.1 Horapollo’s Symbolic Hieroglyphs
5.2 Horapollo’s Metaphysics
5.3 Sensible Nature and the Intelligible Cosmos
Conclusion: Re-reading the Hieroglyphica
Appendixes
Appendix 1: Horapollo’s Hieroglyphs and their Meanings
Appendix 2: The Egyptian Content of the Hieroglyphica
Appendix 3: The Coptic Content of the Hieroglyphica
Bibliography
Text Editions
Secondary Texts
Other Primary Texts Cited
Other Secondary Texts Cited

About the author

Mark Wildish is Tutor / Honorary Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Hong Kong.

Summary

The main aim of this book is to reconstruct a philosophical context for the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo, a late 5th century Greek study of hieroglyphic writing. In addition to reviewing and drawing on earlier approaches it explores the range of signs and meanings for which Horapollo is interested in giving explanations.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Wildish
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138837812
• ISBN: 978-1-138-83781-2
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Issues in Ancient Philosophy; Issues in Ancient Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Egyptian Archaeology / Egyptology