Mark Roblee
Biographic Data
| ID | 5718169 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Roblee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Roblee |
| SIGNATURE | ROBLEE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0066-9711 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“A time will come…”
In a section of the late antique philosophical text known as the Latin Asclepius, Hermes Trismegistus foretells catastrophe for Egypt due to impiety. Hermes describes how an extreme breakdown in institutional, social, and environmental order will eventually lead to renewal. Many scholars argue that literary representations of catastrophe reflected social conditions and/or legitimized power. Like other philosophical writings, the Hermetic tractate…
Performing Circles in Ancient Egypt from Mehen to Ouroboros
Drawing from cultic literature and iconography, this article examines the use of encirclement and circular imagery in ancient Egypt—ritual circumambulation, circular knots and jewelry, painted papyri, encircling utterances, and especially the apotropaic serpentine figure Mehen, who prefigured the ouroboros in Byzantine, Arabic, Jewish, and early modern European thought. Encirclement and circular imagery were performative in the ancient Egyptian c…
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Performing Circles in Ancient Egypt from Mehen to Ouroboros
Drawing from cultic literature and iconography, this article examines the use of encirclement and circular imagery in ancient Egypt—ritual circumambulation, circular knots and jewelry, painted papyri, encircling utterances, and especially the apotropaic serpentine figure Mehen, who prefigured the ouroboros in Byzantine, Arabic, Jewish, and early modern European thought. Encirclement and circular imagery were performative in the ancient Egyptian c…
“A time will come…”
In a section of the late antique philosophical text known as the Latin Asclepius, Hermes Trismegistus foretells catastrophe for Egypt due to impiety. Hermes describes how an extreme breakdown in institutional, social, and environmental order will eventually lead to renewal. Many scholars argue that literary representations of catastrophe reflected social conditions and/or legitimized power. Like other philosophical writings, the Hermetic tractate…
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Antique (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Classical Antiquity Studies (1 work) · Divinity (1 work) · Historical and Literary Studies (1 work) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (1 work)