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== Bibliography == === Introductions and textbooks === * {{cite book|editor1-last=Beretta|editor1-first=Marco |date=2022 |title=A Cultural History Of Chemistry in Antiquity |location=London |publisher=Bloomsbury |doi=10.5040/9781474203746 |isbn=978-1-4742-9453-9 |doi-access=free}} (focus on technical aspects) * {{cite book|editor1-last=Burnett|editor1-first=Charles|editor2-last=Moureau|editor2-first=Sébastien |date=2022 |title=A Cultural History Of Chemistry in the Middle Ages |location=London |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-1-4742-9454-6}} (focus on technical aspects) * {{cite book |last1=Halleux |first1=Robert |date=1979 |title=Les textes alchimiques |location=Turnhout |publisher=Brepols |isbn=978-2-503-36032-4}} * {{cite book |last1=Joly |first1=Bernard |date=2013 |title=Histoire de l'alchimie |location=Paris |publisher=Vuibert-Adapt |isbn=978-2-311-01248-4}} (general overview) * {{cite book |last1=Martelli |first1=Matteo |date=2019 |title=L'alchimista antico: Dall'Egitto greco-romano a Bisanzio |location=Milano |publisher=Editrice Bibliografica |isbn=978-88-7075-979-2}} (Greek and Byzantine alchemy) * {{cite book|editor1-last=Moran|editor1-first=Bruce |date=2022 |title=A Cultural History Of Chemistry in the Early Modern Age |location=London |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-1-4742-9459-1}} (focus on technical aspects) * {{cite book |last=Multhauf |first=Robert P.|author-link=Robert P. Multhauf |year=1966 |title=The Origins of Chemistry |location=London |publisher=Oldbourne |oclc=977570829}} * {{cite book|editor1-last=Nicolaïdis|editor1-first=Efthymios |date=2018 |title=Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity |series=De Diversis Artibus |volume=104 |location=Turnhout |publisher=Brepols |doi=10.1484/M.DDA-EB.5.116173 |isbn=978-2-503-58191-0}} (Greek and Byzantine alchemy) * {{cite book |last1=Partington |first1=James R.|author1-link=J. R. Partington |date=1970|orig-date=1961 |title=A History of Chemistry. Volume 1, Part I |location=London |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0-333-03490-3}} (the second part of volume 1 was never published; the other volumes deal with the modern period and are not relevant for alchemy) * {{cite book |last1=Pereira |first1=Michela |date=2001 |title=Arcana Sapienza: Storia dell'alchimia occidentale dalle origini a Jung |location=Rome |publisher=Carocci |isbn=978-88-430-9647-3}} (general overview, focus on esoteric aspects) * {{cite book |last1=Principe |first1=Lawrence M.|author-link=Lawrence M. Principe |date=2013 |title=The Secrets of Alchemy |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-10379-2}} (general overview, written in a highly accessible style) * {{cite book |last1=Rampling |first1=Jennifer M. |date=2020 |url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo50462000.html |title=The Experimental Fire: Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700 |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-82654-7}} * {{cite book|editor1-last=Viano|editor1-first=Cristina |date=2005 |title=L'alchimie et ses racines philosophiques. La tradition grecque et la tradition arabe |location=Paris |publisher=Vrin |isbn=978-2-7116-1754-8}} === Greco-Egyptian alchemy === ==== Texts ==== * [[Marcellin Berthelot]] and Charles-Émile Ruelle (eds.), ''Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs'' (CAAG), 3 vols., 1887–1888, Vol 1: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k96492923, Vol 2: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9680734p, Vol. 3: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9634942s. * [[André-Jean Festugière]], ''La Révélation d'Hermès Trismégiste'', Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2014 <small>({{ISBN|978-2-251-32674-0}}, OCLC 897235256)</small>. * {{interlanguage link|Robert Halleux|de||fr}} and {{interlanguage link|Henri-Dominique Saffrey|fr}} (<abbr>eds.</abbr>), ''Les alchimistes grecs, <abbr>t.</abbr> 1 : Papyrus de Leyde – Papyrus de Stockholm – Recettes,'' Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1981. * [[Otto Lagercrantz]] (ed), ''Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis'', Uppsala, A.B. [[The Academic Bookstore|Akademiska Bokhandeln]], 1913, [https://archive.org/details/papyrusgraecusho00lage/page/n8 Papyrus graecus holmiensis (P. holm.); Recepte für Silber, Steine und Purpur, bearb. von Otto Lagercrantz. Hrsg. mit Unterstützung des Vilh. Ekman'schen Universitätsfonds]. * Michèle Mertens and {{interlanguage link|Henri-Dominique Saffrey|fr}} (<abbr>ed.</abbr>), ''Les alchimistes grecs, <abbr>t.</abbr> 4.1 : Zosime de Panopolis. Mémoires authentiques,'' Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1995. * Andrée Collinet and {{interlanguage link|Henri-Dominique Saffrey|fr}} (<abbr>ed.</abbr>), ''Les alchimistes grecs, <abbr>t.</abbr> 10 : L'Anonyme de Zuretti ou l'Art sacré and divin de la chrysopée par un anonyme'', Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2000. * Andrée Collinet (ed), ''Les alchimistes grecs'', ''<abbr>t.</abbr> 11 : Recettes alchimiques (Par. Gr. 2419; Holkhamicus 109) – Cosmas le Hiéromoine – Chrysopée'', Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2000. * Matteo Martelli (ed), ''The Four Books of Pseudo-Democritus'', Maney Publishing, 2014. ==== Studies ==== * Dylan M. Burns, " μίξεώς τινι τέχνῃ κρείττονι : Alchemical Metaphor in the ''Paraphrase of Shem'' (NHC VII,1) ", ''Aries'' 15 (2015), p. 79–106. * Alberto Camplani, " Procedimenti magico-alchemici e discorso filosofico ermetico " in Giuliana Lanata (ed.), ''Il Tardoantico alle soglie del Duemila'', ETS, 2000, p. 73–98. * Alberto Camplani and Marco Zambon, " Il sacrificio come problema in alcune correnti filosofice di età imperiale ", ''Annali di storia dell'esegesi'' 19 (2002), p. 59–99. * Régine Charron and Louis Painchaud, " 'God is a Dyer,' The Background and Significance of a Puzzling Motif in the Coptic ''Gospel According to Philip (CG II, 3)'', ''Le Muséon'' 114 (2001), p. 41-50. * Régine Charron, " The Apocryphon of John (NHC II,1) and the Greco-Egyptian Alchemical Literature ", ''Vigiliae Christinae'' 59 (2005), p. 438-456. * Philippe Derchain, "L'Atelier des Orfèvres à Dendara et les origines de l'alchimie," ''Chronique d'Égypte'', <abbr>vol.</abbr> 65, <abbr>n<sup>o</sup></abbr> 130, 1990, <abbr>p.</abbr> 219–242. * Korshi Dosoo, " A History of the Theban Magical Library ", ''Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists'' 53 (2016), p. 251–274. * Olivier Dufault, ''Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity'', California Classical Studies, 2019, [https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2ks0g83x Early Greek Alchemy, Patronage and Innovation in Late Antiquity]. * Sergio Knipe, " Sacrifice and self-transformation in the alchemical writings of Zosimus of Panopolis ", in Christopher Kelly, Richard Flower, Michael Stuart Williams (eds.), ''Unclassical Traditions. Volume II: Perspectives from East and West in Late Antiquity,'' Cambridge University Press, 2011, p. 59–69. * [[André-Jean Festugière]], ''La Révélation d'Hermès Trismégiste'', Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2014 {{ISBN|978-2-251-32674-0}}, {{OCLC|897235256}}. * Kyle A. Fraser, " Zosimos of Panopolis and the Book of Enoch: Alchemy as Forbidden Knowledge ", ''Aries'' 4.2 (2004), p. 125–147. * Kyle A. Fraser, " Baptized in Gnosis: The Spiritual Alchemy of Zosimos of Panopolis ", ''Dionysius'' 25 (2007), p. 33–54. * Kyle A. Fraser, " Distilling Nature's Secrets: The Sacred Art of Alchemy ", in John Scarborough and Paul Keyser (eds.), ''Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World,'' Oxford University Press, 2018, p. 721–742. 2018. [https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199734146.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199734146-e-76]. * Shannon Grimes, ''Becoming Gold: Zosimos of Panopolis and the Alchemical Arts in Roman Egypt'', Auckland, Rubedo Press, 2018, {{ISBN|978-0-473-40775-9}} * Paul T. Keyser, " Greco-Roman Alchemy and Coins of Imitation Silver ", ''American Journal of Numismatics'' 7–8 (1995–1996), p. 209–234. * Paul Keyser, " The Longue Durée of Alchemy ", in John Scarborough and Paul Keyser (eds.), ''Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World,'' Oxford University Press, 2018, p. 409–430. * Jean Letrouit, "Chronologie des alchimistes grecs," in Didier Kahn and Sylvain Matton, ''Alchimie: art, histoire et mythes'', SEHA-Archè, 1995, <abbr>p.</abbr> 11–93. * Lindsay, Jack. ''The Origins of Alchemy in Greco-Roman Egypt''. Barnes & Noble, 1970. * [[Paul Magdalino]] and Maria Mavroudi (eds.), ''The Occult Sciences in Byzantium'', La Pomme d'or, 2006. * {{cite book |last=Martelli |first=Matteo |title=Laboratories of Art |chapter=The Alchemical Art of Dyeing: The Fourfold Division of Alchemy and the Enochian Tradition |series=Archimedes |publisher=Springer International Publishing | publication-place=Cham |volume=37 |date=2014 |isbn=978-3-319-05064-5 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-05065-2_1 |pages=1–22}} * Matteo Martelli, " Alchemy, Medicine and Religion: Zosimus of Panopolis and the Egyptian Priests ", ''Religion in the Roman Empire'' 3.2 (2017), p. 202–220. * {{cite book |last=Merianos |first=Gerasimos |title=The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium |chapter=Alchemy |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=2017 |isbn=978-1-107-30085-9 |doi=10.1017/9781107300859.015 |pages=234–251}} * {{cite book |title=Greek Alchemy from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity |series=De Diversis Artibus |publisher=Brepols Publishers | publication-place=Turnhout |volume=104 |date=2018 |isbn=978-2-503-58191-0 |doi=10.1484/m.dda-eb.5.116173 |page=}} * Daniel Stolzenberg, " Unpropitious Tinctures: Alchemy, Astrology & Gnosis According to Zosimos of Panopolis ", ''Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences'' 49 (1999), p. 3–31. * Cristina Viano, " Byzantine Alchemy, or the Era of Systematization ", in John Scarborough and Paul Keyser (eds.), ''Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World,'' Oxford University Press, 2018, p. 943–964. * {{cite journal |last1=Vlachou |first1=C. |last2=McDonnell |first2=J.G. |last3=Janaway |first3=R.C. |title=Experimental investigation of silvering in late Roman coinage |journal=MRS Proceedings |volume=712 |date=2002 |issn=0272-9172 |doi=10.1557/PROC-712-II9.2 |page=}} === Early modern === * Principe, Lawrence and [[William R. Newman|William Newman]]. ''Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry''. University of Chicago Press, 2002.
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