Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks : : Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary / / Eleni Pachoumi.

• Superior document: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024
• VerfasserIn: Pachoumi, Eleni,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.; Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition ; 33.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 pages)
• Other title: Critical Edition with Translation and Commentary; Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Proclus’ Life and on the Orphic and Chaldaean Theologies -- 2 Proclus’ Works -- 3 Proclus’ on the Hieratic Art and his Lost Works -- 4 Manuscripts -- 5 Text, Transmission, Modern Studies -- 6 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 Description -- Critical Apparatus -- Text and Translation -- Commentary -- Chapter 1: Hieratic Art-Theurgy, Teletai and Invocations, Sympathy, Heliotropes and Luminaries -- Chapter 2: The Stages of the Hieratic/Theurgic Art -- Chapter 3: The Lotus, the Sun, and the Stones -- Chapter 4: Lions and Cocks, Systaseis and Symbols -- Chapter 5: Mixing, One and Many, Helios, Statues and Synthêmata -- Chapter 6: Direct Revelations / Epiphanies of the Gods, Purification Rituals and the Empyrean Power -- Chapter 7: Energeia, “Activity” -- Appendix: MS Vallicellianus F 20 -- Bibliography -- Index 1 -- Index 2 -- Index 3 -- Index 4.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9789004697553; 9789004697546
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Eleni Pachoumi.

The book is a critical edition of the text with an English translation and commentary of Proclus’ On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks . The Hieratic Art is the Theurgic Art, theurgy, the theurgic union with the divine. Proclus describes the theurgic union, putting an emphasis on a conceptual blending of ritual actions (teletai, e.g. the role of statues, incenses, synthêmata, symbols, purifications, invocations and epiphanies) and philosophical concepts (e.g. union of many powers, ‘one and many’, symphathy, natural sympathies, attraction, mixing and division).