Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks

Eleni Pachoumi is currently an academic visiting fellow at Oxford University. She has published the monograph The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri (Mohr Siebeck, 2017), co-edited the volume Praying and Contemplating in Late Antiquity: Religious and Philosophical Interactions (Mohr Siebeck, 2018), and edited the volume Conceptualising Divine Unions in the Ancient Greek and Near Eastern Worlds (Brill, 2022).

• PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Proclus’ Life and on the Orphic and Chaldaean Theologies2 Proclus’ Works3 Proclus’ on the Hieratic Art and his Lost Works4 Manuscripts5 Text, Transmission, Modern Studies6 The Title Πρόκλου περὶ τῆς καθ’ Ἕλληνας ἱερατικῆς τέχνης, “Proclus’ On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks”7 Proclus’ on the Hieratic Art: Book DescriptionCritical ApparatusText and TranslationCommentaryChapter 1: Hieratic Art-Theurgy, Teletai and Invocations, Sympathy, Heliotropes and LuminariesChapter 2: The Stages of the Hieratic/Theurgic ArtChapter 3: The Lotus, the Sun, and the StonesChapter 4: Lions and Cocks, Systaseis and SymbolsChapter 5: Mixing, One and Many, Helios, Statues and SynthêmataChapter 6: Direct Revelations / Epiphanies of the Gods, Purification Rituals and the Empyrean PowerChapter 7: Energeia, “Activity”Appendix: MS Vallicellianus F 20BibliographyIndex 1Index 2Index 3Index 4