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Cleopatra the Alchemist (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα; fl. c. 3rd century AD) was a Greek alchemist, writer, and philosopher. She experimented with practical alchemy but is also credited as one of the four female alchemists who could produce the philosopher's stone .
[1] The word was used in the title of a brief alchemical work, the Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra attributed to Cleopatra the Alchemist, which was probably written in the first centuries of the Christian era, but which is first found on a single leaf in a tenth-to-eleventh century manuscript in the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice, MS Marciana gr. Z. 299. [2]
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[1] Cleopatra, daughter of King Tros of Troy and Callirhoe, daughter of the river-god Scamander. [2] She was the sister of Ilus, Assaracus, Ganymede [3] and possibly, Cleomestra. [4] Cleopatra and Cleomestra probably refer to the same individual. Cleopatra, daughter of Boreas (North wind) and the Athenian princess, Oreithyia.
The chrysopoeia ouroboros of Cleopatra the Alchemist is one of the oldest images of the ouroboros to be linked with the legendary opus of the alchemists, the philosopher's stone. [ citation needed ] A 15th-century alchemical manuscript, The Aurora Consurgens , features the ouroboros, where it is used among symbols of the sun, moon, and mercury.
The most prolonged account of her is given in John Tzetzes' scholia on Lycophron, and runs as follows.The tree in which Chrysopeleia dwelt was put in danger by the waters of a flooding river.
In 193 BC Cleopatra I, a Seleucid princess, married King Ptolemy V of Egypt. Their granddaughter Cleopatra Thea of the Ptolemaic dynasty married the claimant Alexander Balas half a century later in 150 BC. [1] She later married Demetrius II of Syria, and they had two sons. [note 1] Demetrius II was captured and held as a prisoner by the ...
He has also been called "Moses the thrice happy". [1] The author of these alchemical texts was likely Jewish, since his writings show traces of Jewish monotheism and other Jewish beliefs. [2] Moses the alchemist is often conflated with the biblical Moses. The opening passage of his work is an altered version of the Book of Exodus 31: 2–5. [3]