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Olivier Dufault's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month ago
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Olivier Dufault's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month ago
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Olivier Dufault deposited Review of Nicolaidis (ed.) Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReview of Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity. Edited by EFTHYMIOS NICOLAIDIS. Pp. 198, illus., index. Brepols: Turnhout. 2018. £72. ISBN: 978-2-503-58191-0.
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Olivier Dufault deposited Review of Nicolaidis (ed.) Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReview of Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity. Edited by EFTHYMIOS NICOLAIDIS. Pp. 198, illus., index. Brepols: Turnhout. 2018. £72. ISBN: 978-2-503-58191-0.
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Olivier Dufault deposited Review of Nicolaidis (ed.) Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity in the group
Alchemy on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoReview of Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity. Edited by EFTHYMIOS NICOLAIDIS. Pp. 198, illus., index. Brepols: Turnhout. 2018. £72. ISBN: 978-2-503-58191-0.
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Olivier Dufault deposited Review of Nicolaidis (ed.) Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
Review of Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity. Edited by EFTHYMIOS NICOLAIDIS. Pp. 198, illus., index. Brepols: Turnhout. 2018. £72. ISBN: 978-2-503-58191-0.
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Olivier Dufault deposited Mōt in the Phoenician History of Philo of Byblos as a Reference to the Late Representation of the Egyptian Goddess Mut as Demiurge in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThe article discusses the presence of a generative principle called Mōt in a short cosmogony found in the Phoenician History of Philo of Byblos (c. 100 CE). The Phoenician History’s Mōt has been usually understood as the euhemeristic interpretation of a Semitic god of death, which is well documented in late Bronze Age documents from Ugarit. I a…[Read more]
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Olivier Dufault deposited Problems Related to the Use of the Category of Magic in the Writing of Greek and Roman History in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis paper was originally prepared for a meeting of the Methodology Seminar of the Distant Worlds Graduate School (LMU, Munich) and was meant as an introduction to the use of the category of magic in the study of ancient Greek and Roman religions offered to a group of scholars coming from different disciplines.
The study of ancient magic is…[Read more]
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Olivier Dufault deposited Problems Related to the Use of the Category of Magic in the Writing of Greek and Roman History on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
The study of ancient magic is complicated by the fact that most of ancient Greek and Latin terms usually translated by “magic” or “magical” were used in different and contradictory ways. Approaches trying to reconcile rather than expose these different meanings can be divided in two large groups: the so-called essentialist approach, exempli…[Read more]
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Olivier Dufault deposited Mōt in the Phoenician History of Philo of Byblos as a Reference to the Late Representation of the Egyptian Goddess Mut as Demiurge on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
The article discusses the presence of a generative principle called Mōt in a short cosmogony found in the Phoenician History of Philo of Byblos (c. 100 CE). The Phoenician History’s Mōt has been usually understood as the euhemeristic interpretation of a Semitic god of death, which is well documented in late Bronze Age documents from Ugarit. I a…[Read more]
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Olivier Dufault deposited Transmutation Theory in the Greek Alchemical Corpus in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis paper studies transmutation theory as found in the texts attributed to Zosimus of Panopolis,“the philosopher Synesius,” and “the philosopher Olym-piodorus of Alexandria.” It shows that transmutation theory (i.e. a theory explain-ing the complete transformation of substances) is mostly absent from the work attributed to these three authors…[Read more]
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Olivier Dufault deposited Transmutation Theory in the Greek Alchemical Corpus in the group
Alchemy on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis paper studies transmutation theory as found in the texts attributed to Zosimus of Panopolis,“the philosopher Synesius,” and “the philosopher Olym-piodorus of Alexandria.” It shows that transmutation theory (i.e. a theory explain-ing the complete transformation of substances) is mostly absent from the work attributed to these three authors…[Read more]
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Olivier Dufault deposited Who Wrote Greek Curse Tablets? in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoMany scholars of ancient Greek religion would probably agree that the use of curse tablets in the ancient Mediterranean world ‘cut across all social categories’. From a comparative perspective, it would be surprising if high levels of Greek literacy had been achieved by all social classes in classical and Hellenistic times. Greek literature,…[Read more]
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Olivier Dufault's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
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Olivier Dufault deposited Transmutation Theory in the Greek Alchemical Corpus on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months ago
This paper studies transmutation theory as found in the texts attributed to Zosimus of Panopolis,“the philosopher Synesius,” and “the philosopher Olym-piodorus of Alexandria.” It shows that transmutation theory (i.e. a theory explain-ing the complete transformation of substances) is mostly absent from the work attributed to these three authors…[Read more]
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Olivier Dufault deposited Who Wrote Greek Curse Tablets? on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months ago
Many scholars of ancient Greek religion would probably agree that the use of curse tablets in the ancient Mediterranean world ‘cut across all social categories’. From a comparative perspective, it would be surprising if high levels of Greek literacy had been achieved by all social classes in classical and Hellenistic times. Greek literature,…[Read more]
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Olivier Dufault's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months ago
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Olivier Dufault's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months ago
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