To view prices and purchase online, please login, or register for an account.
(Paperback, Revised edition)
By: Horapollo Niliacus
ISBN: 9780691000923
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
See more...
An anthology of nearly two hundred "hieroglyphics," or allegorical emblems, said to have been used by the Pharaonic scribes in describing natural and moral aspects of the world. This work tells how various types of natural phenomena, emotions, virtues, philosophical concepts, and human character-types were symbolized.
