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Zosimos of Panopolis (Greek: Ζώσιμος ὁ Πανοπολίτης; also known by the Latin name Zosimus Alchemista, i.e. "Zosimus the Alchemist") was an alchemist and Gnostic mystic. He was born in Panopolis (present day Akhmim , in the south of Roman Egypt ), and likely flourished ca. 300. [ 2 ]
Rufus and Zosimus (died 107), Christian saints; Zosimus (martyr) (died 110), Christian martyr who was executed in Umbria, Italy; Zosimos of Panopolis, also known as Zosimus Alchemista, 3rd-century alchemist; Zosimus the Hermit, 3rd-century Christian ascetic; Zosimus, bishop of Naples, c. 356 – c. 362
Mary or Maria the Jewess (Latin: Maria Hebraea), also known as Mary the Prophetess (Latin: Maria Prophetissa) or Maria the Copt (Arabic: مارية القبطية, romanized: Māriyya al-Qibṭiyya), [1] was an early alchemist known from the works of Zosimos of Panopolis (fl. c. 300) and other authors in the Greek alchemical tradition. [2]
Theosebeia, correspondent of the alchemist Zosimus of Panopolis [2]: 1278 ...
He is known only through fragments of text in the works of Zosimos of Panopolis and Olympiodorus of Thebes. [1] Some theorists state that Chymes is the eponymous founder of alchemy. [2] Zosimus associates him with Mary the Jewess. He may likely date from this earliest period of alchemy. [1]
Zosimus (Ancient Greek: Ζώσιμος; fl. 490s–510s) was a Greek historian who lived in Constantinople during the reign of the eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius I (491–518). [1] According to Photius , he was a comes , and held the office of "advocate" of the imperial treasury . [ 2 ]
This text originally comes from a lecture delivered by Jung at the Eranos Conference at Ascona, Switzerland in 1937. It was revised and expanded in 1954. [5] Much of this chapter is devoted to a translation of Zosimos of Panopolis's The Treatise of Zosimos the Divine concerning the Art, an important alchemical text from the 3rd century CE.
Although alchemists pursued many different goals, the making of gold and silver remained one of the defining ambitions of alchemy throughout its history, from Zosimus of Panopolis (c. 300) to Robert Boyle (1627–1691). [1]