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Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late AntiquityOlivier Dufault

Alchemy

Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity

by Olivier Dufault

A historian's account of how early Greek alchemists such as Zosimos competed for patrons and authority in the late Roman world. Dufault reads their polemics against rivals and their claims to ancient wisdom as strategies within a social and economic setting.

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