fl. c. 50 CE · Stoic philosopher · sacred scribe · writer on hieroglyphs
Chaeremon of Alexandria
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Known · AttestedWorked in Alexandria.
In Alexandria: c. 40–60 CE
An Alexandrian Stoic and Egyptian sacred scribe who wrote on hieroglyphs and on the life of the Egyptian priests, which Porphyry quotes at length.
Our device: Their emblem is a hieroglyph cut in stone. No portrait of any of these people survives. The emblems are our devices.
On the shelves
- Chaeremon of Alexandria, History of Egypt, On Hieroglyphs, and other works · c. 30–60 CE · Survives in fragments
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Sources (2)
- Porphyry, On Abstinence 4.6–8
- G. Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind (Cambridge, 1986)