Section outline

  • Topics:

    ·       alchemy and cosmology

    ·       mechanics of alchemy

    ·       alchemy and science

     

    Greek Readings: Leyden and Stockholm Papyri (selections); Zosimus, On Excellence, The Work; Hermetica: Stob. Herm. 26.13, 28-29; Isis to Her Son Horus

     

    Readings:

    ·       Alchemy Readings

    ·       Zosimus, On Excellence

    ·       Zosimus On the Letter Omega

    ·       Ogden 46

    ·       PGM XII 193-201

     

    ·       Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon, ch. 9

    ·       Jung, Visions of Zosimus

    ·       Martelli, The Alchemical Art of Dyeing

    ·       Stolzenberg, Unpropitious Tinctures

    ·       Taylor, A Survey of Greek Alchemy

     

    Supplementary Readings:

    ·       Grimes, Secrets of the God Makers: Re-Thinking the Origins of Greco-Egyptian Alchemy

    ·       Hershbell, Democritus and The Beginnings of Greek Alchemy

    ·       Martelli, Greek Alchemists at Work

    ·       Principe, Some Problems with the Historiography of Alchemy

    ·       Ps. Democritus Physika & Mystika

    ·       Synesius to Dioscorus on Democritus

    ·       Caley, The Leyden Papyrus X

    ·       Caley, The Stockholm Papyrus