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A Titan from Greek mythology who stole fire from the gods for humanity, symbolizing human ingenuity and the quest for forbidden knowledge. In alchemy, he is often linked to the discovery of the 'secret fire' necessary for the Great Work.
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Appears in 425 Books
Plato; Ficino, Marsilio (translator)
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499
Plato (Ficino translation)
Giambattista della Porta
Andrea Alciato
Bruno, Giordano, 1548-1600
Plato; trans. Marsilio Ficino
Francesco Petrarca
Various; ed. Lazarus Zetzner
Proclus | Taylor, Thomas (trans.)
Robert Fludd
Origen / Gulielmus Spencerus (ed.)
Plotinus; Marsilio Ficino (trans.)
Anna Kingsford
Athanasius Kircher
Robert Fludd
Bacon, Francis
Plato | Taylor, Thomas (trans.)
Maier, Michael
Giordano Bruno
Jan Baptist van Helmont
Bacon, Francis
David Anhaght (Dawit Anyalt)
Fludd, Robert
Bonifacio, Baldassare
Vondel, Joost van den
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von
Apollonius Rhodius
Erasmus, Desiderius
Eckartshausen, Karl von
Khunrath, Heinrich|Arndt, Johann
Bacon, Francis
Robert Fludd
Iamblichus (trans. Marsilio Ficino)
Pernety, Antoine-Joseph
anonymous
Jamblichus|Proclus|Porphyrius|Psellus|Hermes Trismegistus
Mannasser, Daniel
Labarre de Beaumarchais, Antoine de
Giambattista della Porta
Vondel, Joost van den
Philostratus
[Gleichen, Karl Heinrich von]
Plotinus (copied by John Skutariotes for Ficino)
Michael Maier
Sophocles
Augurellus, Johannes Aurelius
Khunrath, Heinrich|Arndt, Johann
Michael Maier
Giordano Bruno
Plotinus | Ficino, Marsilio (trans.)
Johann Gottfried Herder
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Lucian of Samosata (trans. H.W. & F.G. Fowler)
Aristophanes
Giambattista della Porta
Hermes Trismegistus; Ficino, Marsilio (translator)
Andrea Cesalpino
Proclus; Joseph Justus Scaliger
Johann Jakob Brucker
Giambattista della Porta
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
Robert Estienne
Kenelm Digby; Athanasius Kircher
Henri II Estienne
Henri II Estienne
Francis Bacon
Synesius; Iamblichus; Proclus; Porphyry; Marsilio Ficino (translator)
Hermes Trismegistus; Marsilio Ficino (translator)
Hermes Trismegistus; Marsilio Ficino (translator)
Plotinus; Marsilio Ficino (translator)
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Hermes, Trismegistus, ca. 2./4. Jh.
Desiderius Erasmus
Leonardo Bruni; Hermes Trismegistus
Hermes Trismegistus; Marsilio Ficino
Libavius, Andreas
Desiderius Erasmus
Hermes Trismegistus; Marsilio Ficino
Hermes Trismegistus; Marsilio Ficino (trans.)
Viridarium Chymicum
Libavius, Andreas
Hermes, Trismegistus, ca. 2./4. Jh.
Lucian of Samosata
Horapollo
Hermes Trismegistus; Marsilio Ficino
Gaius Julius Hyginus
Firmicus Maternus
Plato, v427-v347
Marsilio Ficino
Bacon, Francis
Fulgentius; Palaephatus; Albricus; Cornutus (Phornuti)
Giovanni Aurelio Augurello
Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino
Ulisse Aldrovandi
Ulisse Aldrovandi
Claudian (trans. Maurice Platnauer)
Ulisse Aldrovandi
Melanchthon (printed by Robert Estienne)
Hartmann Schedel / Anton Koberger
Cornelius Gemma
Pierre Gassendi
Joannes Stobaeus (ed. Wilhelm Canter)
Hyginus; Fulgentius; Palaephatus; Aratus; Proclus
Francesco Patrizi
Martianus Capella; ed. Francis Eyssenhardt
Guillaume Bude (printed by Robert Estienne)
Martial
Lucius Annaeus Seneca / Erasmus (ed.)
Plato; Marsilio Ficino (translator)
Manilius; Hyginus; Ptolemy
Artemidorus Daldianus; trans. Janus Cornarius
Euripides; Aeschylus
Bacon, Francis
Friedrich Engels
Numenius of Apamea (ed. Friedrich Thedinga)
John Tzetzes
Marcellin Berthelot & Charles-Émile Ruelle
Dionysius Periegetes (printed by Robert Estienne)
Numenius of Apamea
Apollonius Rhodius (ed. Henri II Estienne)
Bacon, Francis
Plutarch; trans. Frank Cole Babbitt
Lucian of Samosata (trans. H.W. & F.G. Fowler)
Lucian of Samosata
Aeschylus
Aesop & Cornutus
Friedrich Engels
Oppian of Anazarbus
Hesiod; Theognis
Horapollo (ed. Robert Estienne)
Vitruvius (trans. Cesare Cesariano)
Olympiodorus
Iamblichus; Proclus; Porphyry; trans. Marsilio Ficino
Richard Reitzenstein
Reitzenstein, Richard
Apollonius Rhodius; Orpheus; Lycophron
Anna Kingsford
[Gleichen, Karl Heinrich von]
Plato; Vladimir Solovyov (translator)
Eusebius of Caesarea; J.B. Aucher (ed.)
Alexander Herzen
Lactantius
Castiglione, Baldassare
Alexander Roberts & James Donaldson (eds.)
Pliny the Elder
Nicolas Flamel
Ficino, Marsilio (1433-1499)
Alexei Khomyakov
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Søren Kierkegaard
Artemidorus of Daldis
Sophocles; Hesiod; Euripides; Aeschylus
Scott, Walter
Lactantius
Henri II Estienne (ed.)
Theodore Metochites
Heinrich Keil
Friedrich Spiegel
Anonymous Byzantine (ed. Markos Mousouros; Aldus Manutius)
Valerius Flaccus
Vladimir Solovyov
Polydore Vergil
Jerome; Migne, Jacques-Paul
Libavius, Andreas
Conrad Gessner
Ausonius; Valpy, Abraham John
Hesiod & Homer (tr. Evelyn-White)
Niccolò Perotti
Apollonius Rhodius
Artemidorus Daldianus
Alexei Khomyakov
Isidore of Seville; Arevalo, Faustinus
Proclus | Taylor, Thomas (trans.)
Plutarch; ed. Gregorios N. Bernardakis
Philostratus
Bacon, Francis
Henri II Estienne (ed.)
Propertius
Clement of Alexandria
Janus Lascaris (ed.)
Lactantius
Marcus Porcius Cato; Varro; Columella; Palladius
Isidore of Seville; Arevalo, Faustinus
Plutarch; ed. Gregorios N. Bernardakis
Aristophanes
Bacon, Francis
Francesco Petrarca
Karl Müller (ed.)
Plato / Marsilio Ficino
Theodore Metochites; ed. C.G. Müller & T. Kiessling
Lactantius; Brandt, Samuel
Aristophanes
Anonymous
Pierre Jurieu; Gisbert Cuper
Andreas Libavius
Christoph Froschmayr von Scheibenhof
Eliphas Lévi
Clement of Alexandria
Theodore Metochites
Moschopoulos; Thomas Magister
Bēssariōn, Cardinal, 1403–1472; Eustathius, Archbishop of Thessalonica, -approximately 1194; Orville, Jacques-Philippe d', 1696–1751; Banks, Rev. John Cleaver, approximately 1766–1845; Orville, Jean d', 1734-; Orville, Jean d', 18th century; Andronicus Callistus, –1478
Conrad Gesner
Conrad Gesner
[Gleichen, Karl Heinrich von]
[Guillemain de Saint-Victor, Louis]
Saint-Martin, Louis Claude de
Ulisse Aldrovandi
Postel, Guillaume
Conring, Hermann
[Andreae, Johann Valentin]
[Siebmacher, Johann Ambrosius]|Meung, Jean de
Porta, Giovanni Battista della
[Tiedemann, Dieterich]
Manzolli, Pietro Angelo
Arnold, Gottfried
Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
[Lebailly-Grainville, François]
Maximus of Tyre
Theocritus (ed. Henri II Estienne)
Robert Estienne
Plato; Ficino, Marsilio (translator)
Plato / Marsilio Ficino
Proclus; Cleomedes; Aratus
[Hoburg, Christian]
Athanasius Kircher
[Guillemain de Saint-Victor, Louis]
Bacon, Francis
Ulisse Aldrovandi
Hermes Trismegistus
Johann Jakob Brucker
Photius I, Patriarch of Constantinople
Philostratus
Polydore Vergil
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Artemidorus Daldianus; trans. Janus Cornarius
Libavius, Andreas
Desiderius Erasmus
Horapollo
Fulgentius; Palaephatus; Albricus; Cornutus (Phornuti)
Aesop & Cornutus
Bacon, Francis
Horapollo (ed. Robert Estienne)
Henri II Estienne
Marcellin Berthelot & Charles-Émile Ruelle
Dionysius Periegetes (printed by Robert Estienne)
Henri II Estienne
Reitzenstein, Richard
Plutarch; ed. Gregorios N. Bernardakis
Giambattista Della Porta
Vinet, Elie
Libavius, Andreas
Maier, Michael
Libavius, Andreas
Vitruvius (trans. Cesare Cesariano)
Lazarus Zetzner (ed.)
Libavius, Andreas
Maier, Michael
Aemilius Baehrens
Leonardo Bruni; Hermes Trismegistus
Gerardus Johannes Vossius
Friedrich Engels
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Kofski, Vinzenz
Karl Marx
Hyginus; Fulgentius; Palaephatus; Aratus; Proclus
Bernard P. Grenfell & Arthur S. Hunt
Andreas Libavius
Constant, Alphonse Louis
Libavius, Andreas
Pliny the Elder
Andreas Libavius
Bernard P. Grenfell & Arthur S. Hunt
Maximus of Tyre; Alcinous
Francis Bacon
Wyss, Johann Rudolf
Thomas Hobbes
Moncure Daniel Conway
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel