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Zosimus

Greek scholar of the third or fourth century, considered one of the founders of alchemy.

Zosimus worked in Alexandria. In his works, he gives a mystical, allegorical description of chemical operations, particularly the “sacred art” of imparting to base metals a silvery white or golden yellow color, which supposedly began their transformation into silver and gold.

REFERENCE

Figurovskii, N. A. Ocherk obshchei istorii khimii ot drevneishikh vremen do nachala 19 v. Moscow, 1969.

Zosimus

A late Roman (end of the fifth century) historian.

Zosimus was the author of A New History (in six books; written about 498), in which he summarizes the history of the Roman Empire from Augustus to the seizure of Rome by Alaric I in 410, relating events of the period from 270 through 410 in greatest detail. As an ideologist of the old Roman pagan aristocracy, he was unfavorably disposed to Christianity, the spread of which he considered one of the major reasons for the destruction of the Roman Empire. Zosimus sharply criticized the policy of the emperors Constantine I and Theodosius I.

WORKS

Historic! nova. Edited by Z. Mendelssohn. Leipzig, 1887.

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The Byzantine historian Zosimus recorded the Roman perfidy and its predictable result: "The tribunes and other officers .

The fall of Rome: beginning in the fourth century, an unprecedented ... by Behreandt, Dennis / The New American

Graevius also appended Junius' Catalogus, an alphabetical list, published by him for the first time, of ancient architects, painters, sculptors and other artisans from Aaron to Zosimus, together with a notation for each of the works attributed to him in the literary sources, and including also works by anonymous artists and such generic entries as "Alexandrian tapestries" or "Campanian dishes.

The Literature of Classical Art, 2 vols by Gilman, Ernest B. / Renaissance Quarterly