late 5th century CE · grammarian · teacher
Horapollo
Ὡραπόλλων
Known · ProbableWorked in Alexandria.
In Alexandria: c. 470–490 CE
An Egyptian grammarian who taught in Alexandria in the later 5th century and is the probable author of the Hieroglyphica, a Greek book on the meaning of hieroglyphs. Its rediscovery on Andros in 1419 fed the Renaissance's Hermetic Egypt.
Our device: Their emblem is a carved ibis. No portrait of any of these people survives. The emblems are our devices.
On the shelves
- Horapollo (translated into Greek by one Philippus), Hieroglyphica · 5th century CE · Survives whole
Moments
- c. 430–610s CE · The late schools teach Plato and Aristotle Known: attested
- 1419 CE · Horapollo's Hieroglyphica found on Andros Known: attested
In the show
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Sources (2)
- Suda Horapollon, ω 159 (opens in a new tab)
- E. J. Watts, City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006)