10-19-2023, 01:34 AM
Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity
"The appearance of alchemical commentaries between the first and the fourth century CE provides us with an opportunity to study a striking example of innovation
in ancient Greek scholarship. Contextualizing the alchemical commentaries of Zosimus of Panopolis (c. 300 CE)—the oldest extant alchemical author—can help
us understand how this form of scholarship came to be considered worth studying and copying by ancient scholars, i.e. by professionals of paideia."
https://escholarship.org/content/qt2ks0g...f?t=ppwaz3
"The appearance of alchemical commentaries between the first and the fourth century CE provides us with an opportunity to study a striking example of innovation
in ancient Greek scholarship. Contextualizing the alchemical commentaries of Zosimus of Panopolis (c. 300 CE)—the oldest extant alchemical author—can help
us understand how this form of scholarship came to be considered worth studying and copying by ancient scholars, i.e. by professionals of paideia."
https://escholarship.org/content/qt2ks0g...f?t=ppwaz3