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Georg Pictorius Georg Pictorius of Villingen (c. 1500 – 1569) was a physician and an author of the German Renaissance. He became active as a physician from 1540 in Ensisheim. In his book on magic, he condemns witchcraft, endorsing the witch-trials of his time: ...

. It was one of the first treatises of

Classical mythology Classical mythology, Greco-Roman mythology, or Greek and Roman mythology is both the body of and the study of myths from the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans as they are used or transformed by cultural reception. Along with philosophy and polit ...

in the

German Renaissance The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among Germany, German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which developed from the Italian Renaissance. Many areas of the arts and ...

. Pictorius interprets the Greek pantheon as

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, e.g.

Cybele Cybele ( ; Phrygian: ''Matar Kubileya/Kubeleya'' "Kubileya/Kubeleya Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; Lydian ''Kuvava''; el, Κυβέλη ''Kybele'', ''Kybebe'', ''Kybelis'') is an Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forer ...

as the

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, her chariot wheels as symbolizing the rotation of the Earth.

Editions

*''Theologia mythologica ex doctiss. uirorum promptuario, labore Pictorij Vill. in compendium congesta. : Videlicet De nominum deorum gentilium ratione. De imaginibus, aut formis, insignibusque eorundem et omnium imaginum explanationes allegoricæ'', Antwerp,

Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten or Michel Hillenius (Hoogstraten, c. 1476, – Antwerp, 22 July 1558), was a Flemish printer, publisher, bookseller and bookbinder.

(1532) *''Theologia mythologica : videlicet de nominum deorum gentilium ratione, de imaginibus aut formis, insignibusque eorundem, et omnium imaginum explanationes allegoricae'', Franeker, J. Horreus (1696).

References

*Peter S. Hawkins, ''From Mythography to Myth-Making: Spenser and the Magna Mater Cybele'', Sixteenth Century Journal, (1981). *Rachel Darmon : "Georgius Pictorius à la recherche d'un langage mythographique", in ''Acta Conventus Neo-latini Uppsaliensis. Proceedings of the fourteenth International Congress of Neo-latin Studies, Uppsala, 2009,'' dir. Astrid Steiner-Weber, Brill, 2012, p. 341-351. *Rachel Darmon : « La mythographie comme écriture de la ''variatio'' : métamorphoses poétiques de l’unité divine au XVI^e siècle », in ''La'' variatio''. L’aventure d’un principe d’écriture, de l’Antiquité au XXIe siècle.'' ''Actes du colloque tenu à l’Université de Clermont-Ferrand, 25-27 mars 2010'', dir. Hélène Vial, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2014, p. 429-439. *Rachel Darmon : « Figuration, fable et théologie dans les traités de mythographie », in ''Fable/ Figure. Récit, fiction, allégorisation à la Renaissance'', dir. Trung Tran, RHR : Revue de l’association d’études sur la Renaissance, l’Humanisme et la Réforme, n° 77, Lyon, décembre 2013, p. 31-50. 1532 books Mythology books Mythography References on Greek mythology