Agathodaemon of Alexandria (Greek: Ἀγαθοδαίμων Ἀλεξανδρεὺς, Agathodaímōn Alexandreùs) was a Greek or Hellenized Egyptian cartographer, presumably from...

Ptolemaic Alexandria. Vol. I. Oxford: Claredon Press. p. 210. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Agathodaemon", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and...

Egyptian alchemist Agathodaemon of Alexandria, an Egyptian cartographer of uncertain date connected with Ptolemy's Geography Agathodaemon, a Martian canal...

inscription in several of the earliest surviving manuscripts, it is traditionally credited to Agathodaemon of Alexandria. Notable features of Ptolemy's map is...

Rosenkreuz Abraham Eleazar Agathodaemon Chymes Cleopatra the Alchemist Mary the Jewess Moses of Alexandria Olympiodorus of Thebes (c. 400) Paphnutia the...

Bolbitine (later the Rosetta) the Canopic (also called the Herakleotic, Agathodaemon) Alexandrian (Schedia canal) Colynthin (Canopic) Agnu (Rosetta) Parollos...

leaves of ancient Egypt and supporting an architrave with a relief of a central winged sun-disk flanked by Horus falcons. A carved Agathodaemon in the...

Moses of Alexandria, often known simply as Moses or Moses the Alchemist, was an early alchemist who wrote Greek alchemical texts around the first or second...

Stephanus of Alexandria (Greek: Στέφανος Αλεξανδρεύς; fl. c. 580 – c. 640) was a Byzantine philosopher and teacher who, besides philosophy in the Neo-Platonic...

Agathodaemon (Greek: Ἀγαθοδαίμων, Agathodaímōn; c. 300) was an alchemist in late Roman Egypt, known only from fragments quoted in medieval alchemical treatises...

Italy Copper statuette of Serapis Agathodaemon, in National Archaeological Museum, Athens Youtie, H. (1948). "The kline of Serapis". The Harvard Theological...

Stephen of Alexandria wrote a work called De Chrysopoeia. Chrysopoeia is also the title of a 1515 poem by Giovanni Augurello. Images from Chrysopeoia of Cleopatra...

with the exception of the agathodaemon, honored first with a libation in ceremonial wine-drinking, especially at the sanctuary of Dionysus, and represented...

alchemical substance capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold or silver. It is also called the elixir of life, useful for rejuvenation...

still consisting of two vessels connected by a tube, used for distillation of liquids. The complete distilling apparatus consists of three parts: the...

ornaments of Roman times, the statuette, probably imported from the area of Alexandria, reproduces with a few modifications the statuary type of Aphrodite...

appears to have been active in Alexandria in the 3rd century or 4th century A.D. She is associated with the school of alchemy typified by Mary the Jewess...

authors of Greek and Latin works from Hellenistic period onwards. Together with Pseudo-Zoroaster and Pseudo-Hystaspes, Ostanes belongs to the group of pseudepigraphical...

unpleasant or fetid (offensive) smell. The Greek Christian writer Clement of Alexandria deliberately confounded ichor in its medical sense as a foul-smelling...

Siculus, 5.66.3; Clement of Alexandria, Recognitions 31. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface Richard Janko, "Forgetfulness in the Golden Tablets of Memory", Classical...

Cardinal Jean de La Rochetaillée Jean de Roquetaillade, also known as John of Rupescissa, (ca. 1310 – between 1366 and 1370) was a French Franciscan alchemist...

he went with his brother Euoptius to Alexandria, where he became an enthusiastic Neoplatonist and disciple of Hypatia. Between 395 and 399, he spent...

studies produced a number of substances, which were later classified as particular chemical compounds or mixtures of compounds. Many of these terms were in...

known as Agathodaemon in the old canal maps), has a length of 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi) and a depth of up to 7 kilometres (4.3 mi). The length of Valles...

In alchemy, the Magnum Opus or Great Work is a term for the process of working with the prima materia to create the philosopher's stone. It has been used...

mainstream entertainment. Literary alchemy appears throughout the history of English literature from Shakespeare to modern Fantasy authors. Here, characters...

medical movement based on the theories and therapies of Paracelsus. It developed in the second half of the 16th century, during the decades following Paracelsus'...

the Secreta alchymiae ('The Secret of Alchemy') attributed to Khalid ibn Yazid (c. 668–704 or 709), it is one of "the four principal operations", along...

and myth, pp.179 .Oxford University Press, p.179 ανησιδώρα Hesychius of Alexandria s.v. Scholiast on Theocritus, 2.12 Nilsson Vol I, p.458 M.L.West (2007)...

years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry". Van Helmont is remembered...